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AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE THREE-LEGGED HUANGHUALI LAMPSTAND, SANZUDENGTAI
MING DYNASTY, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The upright pole passes through a circular panel supported on three elegantly formed cabriole legs superbly carved at the bottom in ball feet enclosed by scrolling leaves, all set above inverted lotus heads and terminating at the top with sichi tuntou (four-fanged swallowing heads), animals heads depicted with gaping jaws, flared nostrils and bulging eyes. The legs are connected at the upper section by brass mounts incised with waves and joined by a triangular wooden panel at the lower section. The top end of the pole is set with a candle stand above three openwork spandrels finely carved and pierced with scrolling tendrils.
63 in. (162 cm.) high, 13 in. (33 cm.) wide
Provenance
Grace Wu Bruce, 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 61.
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong.
Literature
Sarah Handler, "Carriers of Light: The Chinese Lampstand and Lantern", JCCFS, Spring 1991, pp. 24-25, figs. 7 and 7a.
Wang Shixiang, "Additional Examples of Classical Chinese Furniture", Orientations, January 1992, pp. 49-50, no. 14.
Curtis Evarts, "The Classic of Lu Ban and Classical Chinese Furniture", JCCFS, Winter 1993, p. 43, fig. 23.
Wang Shixiang and Curtis Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, p. 166, no. 77.
National Museum of History, Splendor of Style: Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, p.195.
Sarah Handler, Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture, Berkeley, 2001, p. 310.
Wang Shixiang, Mingshi Jiaju Yanjiu (Research on Ming Style Furniture), Beijing, 2007, p. 392, no. 14.
Grace Wu Bruce, Two Decades of Ming Furniture, Beijing, 2010, p.257.
Exhibited
Splendor of Style: Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, National Museum of History, Taipei, 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.
Special notice
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Post lot text
Please note these lots contain a type of Dalbergia wood that is subject to CITES export/import restrictions. However, as in each lot (or each individual item in the lot) the weight of this type of Dalbergia does not exceed 10 kg, starting from 1 May 2021, CITES license is no longer required for importing the lot (or the individual item in the lot) into Hong Kong. Before you decide to bid, please check whether your destination country permits import without CITES license. If CITES license is required, we will make the lot available for your collection in Hong Kong. We will not cancel your purchase due to any CITES restrictions impacting the import of the lot to the destination country.