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A RARE MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK
LACQUER RECTANGULAR INCENSE STAND,
XIANGJI
Ming Dynasty
Finely and elaborately inlaid over the entire exterior
surface with shaped pieces and strips of iridescent
shell in a variety of shades of pink, white and green,
the flat top with three horsemen and foot servants
passing though an inscribed gate in front of two
pavilions on a willow terrace, all within a broad
border of floral cell-pattern, the shaped apron
reserved with four large cartouches of an animal
amongst flower blooms, the legs with dense vertical
coiling leafy flowerhead meanders, the flat base with
a lordly crested peacock at the centre of a peony
terrace, on a low tiered pierced base, Japanese
wood box.
66cm (25 7/8in) high x 36cm (15 1/2in) deep x
39.5cm (14 1/4in) wide. (2).
£5,000 - 8,000
CNY45,000 - 72,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

明 黑漆嵌螺鈿人物圖香幾

Provenance: a Japanese private collection
Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3841

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger
Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2012,
no.100

來源：日本私人舊藏
香港佳士得，2011年6月1日，拍品編號3841

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，
倫敦，2012年，編號100

Incense stands of the present form appear to have
been in use since at least the twelfth century, as
121 shown by a related miniature stand excavated
from a Jin dynasty tomb in North China dated to
1189; see L.Sickman, ‘Chinese Classic Furniture’,
in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society,
vol.42, 1977-1978, pl.9b. A related stand, Ming
dynasty, is illustrated in Mother-of-Pearl Inlay in
Chinese Lacquer Art, Tokyo, 1981, no.46. Another
similar mother-of-pearl-inlaid lacquer incense
stand, 16th/17th century, is illustrated in Drache
und Phoenix: Lackarbeiten aus China Sammlung
Familie Lee, Cologne, 1990, p.222, no.98. A very
similar mother-of-pearl-inlaid lacquer incense stand,
15th/16th century, was sold at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 30 May 2018, lot 3027.

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