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VARIOUS PROPERTIES

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AN IMPERIAL GOLD-LACQUERED INCENSE STAND
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

The square top is above a narrow waist and plain beaded apron. The
whole is raised on beaded legs of square section, ftted with openwork
corner spandrels, joined at the bottom by shaped base stretchers, and
further raised on small tab feet. The top frame, apron, and legs are
decorated at the corners with stylized ruyi heads.

33 in. (83.8 cm.) high, 16º in. (41.3 cm.) square

$8,000-12,000

It is well documented that the Yongzheng Emperor had a particular
fascination with Japanese lacquer techniques, yangqi, and this was refected
in many of the works produced in the Imperial workshops during his reign.
For a discussion on the infuence of Japanese lacquer in the Qing court, see
Qinggong shihui: Yuancang Riben Qiqi Tezhan, National Palace Museum,
Taipei, 2002. Although the technique was adapted by the artisans in the
Yongzheng court, the basic technique employed in decorating the top and
aprons of the present stand with sprinkled gold lacquer is a variation on
Japanese nashiji lacquer. The same technique can be seen on a number of
inkstone boxes in the Palace Museum Collection illustrated in Zhongguo
qiqi quanji, Vol. 6, Beijing, 1993, pp. 174-75, pls. 199-202. A pair of cabinets
decorated using Japanese-infuenced techniques, was illustrated by Roger
Keverne, Winter Exhibition 2005, London, 2005, no. 132. Compare, also, the
aprons on the current stand with very similar aprons on a rare double chair
in the Palace Museum Collection illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum, Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
(II), Hong Kong, 2002, p. 73, no. 62.
清雍正 御製漆金如意紋香几

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A QIANGJIN AND TIANQI LACQUER INCENSE STAND

18TH CENTURY

The circular top is decorated with a central chrysanthemum blossom
surrounded by ruyi heads, bats, and foral scroll above a reticulated
waist divided by short vertical struts and shaped, beaded apron. The
whole is raised on fve elegant cabriole legs terminating in upswept
feet raised on balls set into the waisted circular base.
29æ in. (75.6 cm.) high, 12º in. (31.1 cm.) diam.

$12,000-15,000

PROVENANCE

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1960s.

清十八世紀 戧金填漆菊紋香几

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