Chinese Pair of Door Supports

Two scrolled stone ends, each with a rosette on a rolled curl.

This pair of door supports is from Shanxi Province, China. It is stone. During the Cultural Revolution, from 1966 to 1976, a great deal of antique Chinese furniture was burned, confiscated or scattered, which the article says helped start the scarcity of such pieces. A pair of pale gray carved blocks that face each other with a gap between. Each has a rounded scroll end with a medallion of petals and a flat stepped base with a groove. Surfaces are rough and weathered. It is 9 inches long, 28 deep and 24 high.

Facing each other across a gap, with a tidy sense of occasion.