MID-QING DYNASTY

Compare to a pair of huanghuali lampstands, similarly constructed with two uprights and a central adjustable post, formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, September 19, 1996, lot 49, now in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is illustrated by Robert Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999, Minneapolis, no. 59. Another pair of similarly designed adjustable lampstands, formerly in the collection of Gustav Ecke (1896-1971) and later in the collection of Robert H. Ellsworth (1929-2014), was subsequently sold at Christie’s New York, 18 March 2015, lot 104 (fig.2).

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