18TH CENTURY

Compare a pair of nearly identical lampstands now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, sold in these rooms, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September 1996, lot 49. See, also, another adjustable lampstand of similar construction, sold in these rooms, The Dr. S.Y. Yip Collection of Fine and Important Classical Chinese Furniture, 20 September 2002, lot 18. For a discussion of adjustable lampstands, their construction and use, see S. Handler, "Carriers of Light: The Chinese Lampstand and Lantern," Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Summer, 1994, pp. 19-34, and her corresponding chapter in Austere Luminosity of Chinese Furniture, Berkeley, 2001, ch. 18, pp. 303-318.