a magnificent chinese ceremonial poles/halberds stand, china circa 1850.

A Magnificent Chinese Ceremonial Poles/Halberds Stand, China circa 1850.
A complete set of eight Chinese ceremonial poles/halberds, still standing on their original beautiful carved hardwood stand.
The poles/halberds are Still standing on their original beautiful carved hard wood stand, finely carved with dragons standing on dogs of Foo.
The two dragons are connected with bended hardwood simulated bamboo, beautiful carved whole over.
Overall in fantastic condition, no missing pieces or other damages and still with the original old patination, also the bronze ornaments on top.
The poles/halberds have their original finely carved hard wood handles and on top of that the heavy cast solid bronze mounts.
With as we believe the eight symbols of the Daoist Emblems.
Important is that the Chinese always have eight symbols and you can find them back in this rack.
The bronze and the hardwood stand still have the old beautiful original.
Interesting to see is that one of the symbolic bronze ornaments has a small longevity symbol.(see detail photo)
The size of our rack is:
Max. height: 236 cm
The wooden stand is wide from dragon to dragon: 188 cm
On the base, the dogs of Foo: wide: 135 cm
The dept. of the Dogs of Foo is: 62 cm
On top the bronze handles are wide from left to right 206 cm

Antiques.co.uk Ref: E7DPCYDU

Materials:

bronze and hardwood

Width (cm):

206

Height (cm):

236

Depth (cm):

62

koos limburg jnr

Koos limburg jnr. was born in the Netherlands, but since 1994 lives in Scotland.   Over those years he has build up a well established and well respected antique business by participation only on important antique fairs in the uk as well as at the continent.   Koos specialises in high quality antiques over the whole range, with the result that he has sold many items to museums whole over the world.   That’s why his slogan is: “”or the new collector and the museum director.”   Koos has a specialist knowledge for all the antiques he offers for sale. His fair display is well known and he is renowned for his imposing artistic and dramatic presentation stands in which he displays his collection of antiques, reflecting their excellent quality.   He does not want to be identified as a specialist in one particular field or another, with the result that you can find anything and everything on his stand, covering the whole range of rare and unusual quality items of interest to the first time collector up to the museum director.   His parents have been very influential in supporting him and have imbued him a detailed knowledge of, and a huge enthusiasm for the antiques business.   Koos feels extremely privileged to have access to such invaluable expertise and guidance together with access to a well stocked family library about works of art and antiques to enable him to carry out detailed research.   Koos guarantees to any potential collector that they are in experienced and reputable hands and that all items displayed have been thoroughly researched by him.

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