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A RARE GILT-DECORATED POLYCHROME LACQUERED
INCENSE STAND, XIANGJI
18TH CENTURY
The top of the stand is elaborately decorated with fgures in a riverside A Qianlong-period tiered box, painted in a similar style is in the Forbidden
landscape scene, featuring scholars and attendants observing a deer. The City, and is illustrated in Splendors of China's Forbidden City, Chicago, 2004,
sides have ruyi-shaped pierced panels above aprons decorated with further no. 315. The author notes that the style of raised gold motifs on a polished
fgural scenes, all supported on tapering legs and raised on a square platform lacquer ground was favoured by the Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors, and
which is detailed with a dragon roundel.
34½ in. (87.5 cm.) high was originally done in imitation of Japanese lacquer techniques.
£50,000-80,000 US$66,000-100,000
€59,000-93,000

清十八世紀 彩繪漆金木人物圖方香几

(top view)

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