Description
The single-panel top set within a rectangular frame, above a narrow waist and apron carved with stylised archaistic scrolls, the elegant legs of square section joined by humpback base stretchers.
For a discussion on incense stands, their origins and use, see S.Handler, Austere Luminosity of Classical Chinese Furniture, Berkeley, 2001, pp.295-302, where the author explores the inspirational role played by the incense stand in the life of the Chinese literati who would commonly use incense to induce a poetic state of mind.
