A MAGNIFICENT HUANGHUALI CIRCULAR INCENSE STAND, XIANGJI

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Los 2806 | A MAGNIFICENT HUANGHUALI CIRCULAR INCENSE STAND, XIANGJI
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A MAGNIFICENT HUANGHUALI CIRCULAR INCENSE STAND, XIANGJI

17TH CENTURY

The elegantly shaped incense stand is constructed with a circular top with an ‘ice-plate’ edge above a high waist moulded with elongated shaped cartouches. The arched apron is moulded with a stepped and beaded edge, converging at the shoulders to the long and slender cabriole legs, terminating in ball feet above the square, stepped pads resting on a circular base with low bracket feet.

38 1/8 in. (97 cm.) high, top panel 16 1/8 in. (41 cm.) diam





Provenance

Peter Lai Antiques, Hong Kong, 1989.

The Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Renaissance, California.

Christie’s New York, Important Chinese Furniture. Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September 1996, lot 48.

Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong.



Literature

Sarah Handler, "The Incense Stand and the Scholar's Mystical State",JCCFS, Winter 1990, p. 6, fig. 4 and front cover

Sarah Handler, "Classical Chinese Furniture in the Renaissance Collection", Orientations, January 1991, p. 49, fig. 11

Wang Shixiang, "Jianyue Minglian" (Simplicity and Clarity), The National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art, May 1993, p. 7, no. 122

Wang Shixiang, "The Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in California", JCCFS, Autumn 1993, p. 48, no. 4

Wang Shixiang and Curtis Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco,1995, p. 162-163, no. 75.

National Museum of History, Taipei, Splendor of Style: Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 1999, p. 152

Sarah Handler, Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture, Berkeley, 2001, p. 298, fig. 17.4.

Wang Shixiang, Mingshi Jiaju Yanjiu (Ming Style Furniture Research), Beijing, 2007, Appendix 5, p. 397.



Exhibited

Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Pacific Heritage Museum, San Francisco, 7 June 1995 - 31 March 1996.

Splendor of Style: Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, National Museum of History, Taipei, 26 June-5 September 1999.

Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas, on loan from 2007-2014.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, on loan from 2014-2019.



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