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A RARE ‘TIANQI’ AND ‘QIANGJIN’ of leiwen, the recessed waist with wanzi pattern PROVENANCE
LACQUER ‘DRAGON’ INCENSE STAND cartouches alternating with bat and foliate Formerly the tanzhe temple, Daxiongbaodian
(XIANGJI) motifs, surmounting a broad, flaring, cusped (hall of the Great heroes), Beijing (by repute).
17TH CENTURY and barbed apron decorated with further Collection of Jörg trübner (1903-1929)
dragons flanking shou emblems among clouds,
acquired in Beijing in the 1920s, and thence by
finely incised and colored in varying shades all raised on five flanged cabriole legs, painted descent to henry trübner (1920-1999).
of red, green and burnt umber transmuting to with clouds wisps, terminating in outward West Coast private Collection.
black, all picked out with traces of gold filling curving slipper feet, supported on a removable sotheby’s new York, 28th-29th september
within the incisions, the large circular top finely circular plinth with a large frontal dragon coiled 1989, lot 398.
incised and gilt with two pairs of confronting around a shou emblem similarly to the top sotheby’s new York, 23rd march 2011, lot 660.
writhing dragons each contesting a ‘flaming above five low ruyi-shaped feet
pearl’ centered by a circular shou and amid height 40¼ in., 102.2 cm EXHIBITED
fiery cloud scrolls, the straight edge with a band on loan to the royal ontario museum, toronto,
(1959-1982).
LITERATURE
helmut Brinker and albert Lutz, Chinese
Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, new
York, 1989, p. 53, fig. 29.
the present stand benefits from an illustrious
provenance. the tanzhe temple, West Beijing,
founded in 307 aD during the Western Jin
dynasty, has a long history as one of the more
important Buddhist sites for imperial visits.
the Kangxi emperor visited the tanzhe temple
twice, naming it the Xiuyun temple, and
bestowing numerous gifts, including possibly
the set (one of which is the present lot) of
lacquer stands illustrated in a photograph in
Bernd melchers, China, Der Tempelbau, hagen,
1921 and reproduced in helmut Brinker and
albert Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry
Collection, new York, 1989, p. 53, fig. 29.
$ 50,000-70,000

十七世紀 填漆戧金雲龍捧壽紋
香几
來源
原北京潭柘寺大雄寶殿藏（傳）
Jörg Trübner (1903-1929) 收藏，約1920年代
得於北京，之後家族傳承至 Henry Trübner
(1920-1999)
西岸私人收藏
紐約蘇富比1989年9月28至29日，編號398
紐約蘇富比2011年3月23日，編號660
展覽
借展皇家安大略博物館，多倫多，1959
至1982年
出版
Helmut Brinker 及 Albert Lutz，《Chinese
Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection》，
紐約，1989年，頁53，圖29

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