LATE 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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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 flaming 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 5/8 in. (95.5 cm.) high, 14 ½ in. (36.8 cm.) square

Lot Essay

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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