AN IMPERIAL GILT-DECORATED LACQUERED STAND
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, LOTS 277 - 283
AN IMPERIAL GILT-DECORATED LACQUERED STAND

18TH CENTURY

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AN IMPERIAL GILT-DECORATED LACQUERED STAND
18TH CENTURY
The square top set above an open-work band of scrolling lotus tendrils, the tall 'chain-link' legs emanating from open-work geometric scrolls and ending on elaborate S-shaped scrolls linked by further open-work geometric scrolls, the canted base with a central round aperture, densely painted all over in gilt-lacquer with bats in flight amidst vaporous clouds and lotus flowers
40½ in. (102.5 cm.) high

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Louise Britain
Louise Britain

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No other gilt-decorated lacquered wood stand of this elaborate form appears to be published.

For more simplified versions of stands with similar decoration from the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (I), The complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, p. 97, pl. 168; and another, of more elaborate form, see Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (II), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, p. 177, pl. 159.