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    • A GILT-DECORATED BLACK LACQUER
    Lot 386

    A GILT-DECORATED BLACK LACQUER PENTAGONAL STAND

    18TH/19TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    USD 16,250

    Estimate

    USD 6,000 - USD 8,000

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    A GILT-DECORATED BLACK LACQUER PENTAGONAL STAND
    18TH/19TH CENTURY
    The lobed, pentagonal top with a central blossom surrounded by five bats, wufu, contained within shaped cartouches terminating in double ruyi heads, framed within a leafy scroll joined by small ruyi-head clasps, supported by the pierced waist above the apron, each leg issuing from a large ruyi head and ending in stylized scroll feet supported by gilded balls, set on a base of conforming shape raised on five small outward-curved feet
    34¾ in. (88.3 cm.) high

    Provenance

    Private Pennsylvania collection.

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    Lot Essay

    Affixed to the top of the stand is a metal plaque reading, "From Emperor's Summer Palace, Pekin, China, 1902."

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    Pre-Lot Text

    Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Funds of Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

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