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A PAIR OF ZITAN INCENSE STANDS, XIANGJI
LATE 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY

The square top is raised on a narrow waist carved with archaistic
dragon scroll above the shaped apron carved with dragons
confronting a faming pearl. The whole is raised on thick legs of
square section terminating in hoof feet and set into a square base
stretcher raised on small tab feet.
37¬ in. (95.5 cm.) high, 14Ω in. (36.8 cm.) square

$50,000-70,000

A pair of shorter zitan incense stands (75.2 cm. high), with thumb-grooved
edge and hoof feet, 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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