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A PAIR OF ZITAN STANDS

19TH CENTURY

Each top is enclosed in a thick rectangular frame fnely carved with raised beaded
borders. The whole is supported on similarly carved legs and joined by base
stretchers of conforming shape and raised on low bracket feet.

31Ω in. (80 cm.) high, 17¿ in. (43.5 cm.) wide, 13 in. (33 cm.) deep (2)

$30,000-50,000

PROVENANCE

Altfeld Gallery, Hong Kong.
The Marie Theresa L. Virata (1923-2015) Collection.

Compare the present stands with a huanghuali stand of similar form, alternatively
called a trestle support for a plank-form table, illustrated by Gustave Ecke in
Chinese Domestic Furniture, Beijing, 1944, p. 92, no. 71. The Ecke example, however,
does not have the fnely-carved beading on the legs, aprons, and spandrels found on
the present pair.

(top)

清十九世紀 紫檀方几成對

來源
傲斐藝苑，香港
瑪麗·泰瑞莎·L·維勒泰 (1923-2015) 珍藏

可比較一造型近似之黃花梨例，但或曾作為架几案之方几，載於艾克，《中國花
梨傢俱圖考》，北京，1944年，92頁，編號71。艾氏之例其腿﹑牙條及牙頭未
加刻如本對拍品之精細綫腳。

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