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PAIRE DE SELLETTES EN ZITAN, XIANGJI
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XIXEME SIECLE

Le plateau supérieur est inséré dans un cadre carré aux bords

arrondis. La ceinture en retrait surmonte un tablier, reposant sur

quatre pieds de section carrée terminés par des sabots et réunis par

des barres d’entretoise.

Hauteur: 75 cm. (29Ω in.), dimensions du plateau: 42 x 42 cm.

(16Ω x 16Ω in.) (2)

€30,000-40,000 $33,000-44,000
£26,000-34,000

PROVENANCE

Private European collection, acquired prior to 1977, and thence by
descent in the family.

A PAIR OF ZITAN SQUARE INCENSE STANDS, XIANGJI
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

清十九世紀 紫檀香几一對

來源：歐洲私人珍藏，1977年前購入，家族傳承

A pair of zitan incense stands of the same proportion and design, from
the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection, was sold at Christie’s, New York,
18 March 2015, lot 147. See, also, another pair of square zitan stands
(84 cm. high), elaborately carved with endless knots on the tall waist
and carved aprons, illustrated in the catalogue Zitan: The Most Noble
Hardwood, My Humble House Publications, Taipei, 1996, pp. 144-45.

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