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A FINE AND RARE HUANGHUALI BURLWOOD-INSET INCENSE
STAND, XIANGJI
17th century
The stand of rectangular shape enclosing a top of standard mitre,
mortise, and tenon construction with a flush, tongue-and-grooved,
single-board floating panel, the edge moulding gently downward and
inward, ending in a beaded edge, the waist and the apron made of
one piece of wood, ending in a wide band with a concave surface, the
whole supported by square legs terminating in elegant hoof feet.
81cm (31 7/8in) high x 64cm (25 1/8in) wide x 48.5cm (19in) deep.

£30,000 - 50,000
CNY270,000 - 450,000

十七世紀 黃花梨癭木面長方香几

Provenance:
Bonhams San Francisco, 9 December 2008, lot 5136D
An important European private collection

來源：
舊金山邦瀚斯，2008年12月9日，拍品編號5136D
歐洲重要私人收藏

Incense stands such as the present example are among the rarest 几面標準榫卯攢邊框鑲獨板癭木面心，邊抹冰盤沿自中上部內縮至底
types of Ming furniture. They could be square, rectangular, octagonal, 壓窄平線，窄束腰以抱肩榫連接腿足，足端內翻馬蹄，挺拔有力。
round or even lobed and were used to display a scholar’s rock, a
miniature plant, a flower vase or an incense burner. These stands were 香几常出現於明代書畫及版畫中，但傳世品極少。形制有方形、長方
typically used in affluent homes and were often placed in courtyards 形、八角形、圓形或各式花葉形。王世襄著《明式家具研究》中述
where, on the occasion of the Double Seventh Festival, (falling on 及香几用途，「富貴之家，或置廳堂，上陳爐鼎，焚蘭煴麝；或置中
the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese calendar), the 庭，夜色將闌，仕女就之祈神乞巧。道宮神殿，也設香几，焚香之
women of the household burned incense and prayed for progeny or 外，兼放法器」。明刊本《三才圖會》圖示之高方香几，與本例形制
sewing skills. 十分相似，見王世襄著，《明式家具研究》，卷一，香港，1990年，
頁53-54。
An illustration of an incense stand, of a very similar shape to the
present example, from the ‘Pictorial Encyclopedia of Heaven, Earth 一件十六世紀晚期至十八世紀早期黃花梨香几，可資比對，見劉柱柏
and Man’ Sancai Tuhui, a Ming dynasty work, is illustrated by Wang 著，《晏如居藏明式黃花梨家具》，香港，2016年，頁286-287，編
Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol.1, pp.53-54. 號74。

Compare the shape of the present lot with a rectangular incense 另見一件明晚期黃花梨嵌癭木香几，售於香港蘇富比，2015年10月7
stand, late 16th/early 18th century, illustrated by Chu Pak-Lau, 日，拍品編號110。
Classical Chinese Furniture from the Haven Collection, Hong Kong,
2016, pp.286-287, no.74.

A related huanghuali and burlwood incense stand, late Ming dynasty,
was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 October 2015, lot 110.

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