A CHINESE FUJIANESE GILT-LACQUER 'LEAF' STAND.

Qing Dynasty, 19th Century.

Carved as a large banana leaf tied by the stem to a bunch of lotus blossoms forming the base, with a small chilong piercing through the surface with a lingzhi in his mouth, unmarked, 37.5cm long.

Provenance: from an English private collection.

清十九世紀 木漆金葉形座

來源：英國私人收藏。

For a closely related dish dated 19th Century see Edward F Strange, Catalogue of Chinese Lacquer, 1925, plate XXIX. A dish of similar form dating to the 1950s was included in the exhibition In a Myriad of Forms: the Ancient Chinese Lacquers, 2018, Shanghai Museum, cat no 195, p 288.

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