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25 juin 2014

A Pair of Zitan and Mixed Hardwood Altar Tables

A Pair of Zitan and Mixed Hardwood Altar Tables
A Pair of Zitan and Mixed Hardwood Altar Tables. Photo Bonhams. Each paneled top of miter, mortise and tenon construction above an apron and spandrels elaborately carved with dragons emerging from swirling clouds and contesting flaming jewels, the decoration...
25 juin 2014

A zitan altar table, Late Qing-Republic period

A zitan altar table, Late Qing-Republic period
A zitan altar table, Late Qing-Republic period. Photo Bonhams. The two-board paneled top set into a mitered, mortise and tenon frame above a plain waist and humpback stretcher apron fitted with vertical bracket posts on the short and long side and tenoned...
25 juin 2014

A fine huanghuali altar coffer, 19th century

A fine huanghuali altar coffer, 19th century
A fine huanghuali altar coffer, 19th century. Photo Bonhams. The rectangular paneled top set into a miter, mortise and tenon frame joined to upturned scrolled terminals over pierced ruyi-headed brackets flanking three drawer and double doors fitted with...
25 juin 2014

A huanghuali altar table, 18th century

A huanghuali altar table, 18th century
A huanghuali altar table, 18th century. Photo Bonhams. The floating panel top set into a mitered, mortise and tenon frame over a plain beaded apron with U-shaped spandrels joined to tubular supports and paired cross braces. 32 1/4 x 76 5/8 x 20 1/4in...
25 juin 2014

A pair of huanghuali horseshoe back chairs, 17th-18th century

A pair of huanghuali horseshoe back chairs, 17th-18th century
A pair of huanghuali horseshoe back chairs, 17th-18th century. Photo Bonhams. The five-section curved toprail tenoned into an elaborate S-shaped splat carved with two panels showing a single vase incorporated into a ruyi head above a landscape montage...
25 juin 2014

A carved rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th-18th century

A carved rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th-18th century
A carved rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th-18th century. Photo Bonhams. The dark brown body elegantly carved as an opened blossom, the exterior with delicate branches of flowering camellias, and prunus, the stems twisting to form a small handle and foot,...
25 juin 2014

An elegantly carved rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th-18th century

An elegantly carved rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th-18th century
An elegantly carved rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th-18th century. Photo Bonhams. Of flaring rounded conical profile, carved as a section of a pine tree, the exterior walls realistically detailed with knots and whorls of bark rendered with irregular...
25 juin 2014

A rhinoceros horn libation cup, 18th century

A rhinoceros horn libation cup, 18th century
A rhinoceros horn libation cup, 18th century. Photo Bonhams. The honey-colored horn designed as a mallow flower, its exterior carved in high relief with branches of leafy magnolias, with a split-tailed chilong under the pouring mouth-rim opposing another...
25 juin 2014

A small rhinceros horn ritual vessel, ding, 17th-18th century

A small rhinceros horn ritual vessel, ding, 17th-18th century
A small rhinceros horn ritual vessel, ding, 17th-18th century. Photo Bonhams. The diminuitive vessel raised on three plain flared feet supporting a low set body carved with a band of gui-dragons separated by raised six vertical flanges under a key fret...
25 juin 2014

A rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th-18th century

A rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th-18th century
A rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th-18th century. Photo Bonhams. The exterior sides of the flattened conical section of horn undercut and carved in raised relief to depict wizened scholar officials and/or immortals and their boy attendants amid a continuous...