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A CINNABAR LACQUER CARVED ‘SAGES’ HIGH-WAISTED STAND
16th century
The rectangular top exquisitely carved with a sage playing qin on his lap and surrounded
by three sages, rocks and trees on a fenced viewing platform against a finely carved wan-
character (卍)-diaper ground, the platform set in a mountainous landscape and on a geometric-
diaper ground, and supported by a high waist carved with a qilin in a high-relief cartouche
against a cloud-ground on each side, the spreading apron decorated two chi dragons with
chasing a lingzhi fungus amidst clouds on a yellow ground, joined by four elegant cabriole
legs carved with peonies rising from a waisted stand, the top of the stand carved with a bird
flying towards to a branch of prunus blossom and camellia on a floral-diaper ground, all carved
through thick cinnabar-red lacquer, the base and interior lacquered in black and inscribed with
the character Huang each on the base and four joints between leg and waist, box.
54.3cm (21 3/8in) high (2).
HKD750,000 - 850,000
US$96,000 - 110,000
十六世紀 剔紅高士聽琴圖香几

Provenance:
The Ōtani Family of Nishi Honganji Temple, Kyoto, before 1913
An important Asian collection

來源:
日本西本願寺大谷家族舊藏，1913年之前
亞洲重要私人收藏

Published and illsutrated:
Nishi Honganji Ōtanike mikuraki (Catalogue of the Collection of Ōtani Family of Nishi Honganji
Temple), Kyoto, 1913, pl.226

出版及著錄:
《西本願寺大谷家御藏器》，京都，1913年，編號226

Nishi Honganji Ōtanike mikuraki , Kyoto, 1913, pl.226
《西本願寺大谷家御藏器》，京都，1913年，編號226

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