Property of a private Swedish collector.

Compare, lantern stands sold at Sothebys, Important Chinese Art 12 September 2018 New York. Lot no 274.

To see round brass lanterns see lot 600, Christies, 28 April-7 July 2003 Live auction 2138. The Imperial Sale, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art.

Lantern stands of this kind were used for nighttime illumination of one of the many rooms of the grandest residential complexes. Although glass was introduced in the 18th century it is most likely that the present stand originally suspended a globular inside-painted horn lantern. The dragon-head base and coiled-dragon-form stand is a motif seen in other media in the Qianlong period, for example a large cloisonné and gilt stand from the collection of Samuel Avery, illustrated in Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese Cloisonnes, Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, 1912, cat. no 84.

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