A fine pair of Chinese porcelain inlaid hardwood incense stands, late Qing Dynasty- early Republic period, early 20th century each stand of square form, the slightly recessed moulded top inset with a famille rose panel decorated with lotus sprays, peach sprigs and bats within a blue key-fret border reserved on an apple-green ground, all above a recessed waist and apron carved in relief with foliate scrolls within the beaded edge and extending over the square sectioned legs joined below the apron with similarly carved stretchers and terminating in scroll feet above the plain base supported on corner bracket feet / 20 93 cm high, 53.6 cm wide, 53.6 cm deep