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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE
MASSACHUSETTS COLLECTION
1233
A RARE CARVED RED LACQUER
HAT STAND
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The stand is carved with repeating shou
characters, and is surmounted by the domed
hat rest carved with dense, leafy foral scroll,
which is repeated on the top and sides of the lobed
base. The whole is supported on six short feet.
11æ in. (29.8 cm.) high
$18,000-25,000

EXHIBITED
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Draped in Dragons,
2 December 2003 - 2 May 2004.
A carved red lacquer hat stand of comparable
height (29.5 cm.), but of less elaborate form, in
the collection of the British Museum, is illustrated
in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen, Chinese Art in Overseas
Collections: Lacquerware, Taipei, 1987, p. 170 (Fig.
1). Another example, catalogued as a crown rack
and with a gilt-bronze fnial in openwork at the
top, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum - 46 - Lacquer
Wares of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 2006, p.
73, fg. 49 See, also, a pair of carved red lacquer
hat stands sold at Christie’s New York,
22-23 March 2012, lot 1706.
清乾隆 剔紅壽字花卉卷草紋帽架

Fig. 1 A carved red lacquer hat stand decorated with dragons
and shou characters, Qianlong period (1736-1795), 11 3/16 in.
high. Bequeathed by Robert Wylie Lloyd, 1958, 1958,0729.41.
© The Trustees of the British Museum

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