A CHINESE HARDWOOD WEIQI BOX-SHAPED INCENSE BOX AND COVER QING DYNASTY The compressed circular...

A CHINESE HARDWOOD WEIQI BOX-SHAPED INCENSE BOX AND COVER

QING DYNASTY

The compressed circular body supported on a short foot, the cover formed with circular recesses, with rings incised to the interior and underside of the cover, the wood with a warm patina, 8.1cm. (2)

Provenance: from an Australian private collection, formed in the 1980s and 1990s.

Cf. M Flacks, Custodians of the Scholar's Way: Chinese Scholars' Objects in Precious Woods, p.285 for a similar example.