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A PAINTED GREY POTTERY FLASK, A VERY LARGE PAINTED POTTERY AN UNUSUAL BRONZE ‘KNEELING
BIANHU, AND A BURNISHED GREY TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER, LIAN ENTERTAINER’ INCENSE BURNER AND
POTTERY AMPHORA VASE Han Dynasty COVER, BOSHANLU
Han Dynasty The vessel boldly painted around the Han Dynasty
The bianhu imitating a bronze flask raised on cylindrical body with a central border of The vessel comprising a pierced cover cast
a flared rectangular foot with faceted corners, orange-red pigment between thickened rims, as a pierced mountain-peaks range shallowly
each side moulded with a heart-shaped panel all raised on three short stocky legs. 26.6cm decorated with wild animals and human
reserved on a red ground, with loop and ring (10 1/2in) high. figures and surmounted by a seated monkey,
handles on the shoulders, 30cm (11 7/8in) on a bowl raised aloft on the right arm of a
wide; the amphora relief moulded on each £2,000 - 3,000 crouching ‘strong man’ wearing a pointed
side with two spirals seeming to issue from CNY18,000 - 27,000 hat, his face fully defined with bulging eyes,
the base of the broad strap handles carved large nose and open mouth with his tongue
with conjoined circular medallions, with a Please note this Lot is to be sold at No stuck out. 20.6 cm (8 1/8in) high. (2).
finely-hatched band on the faceted neck Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
below the rim formed by an angular spout on £4,000 - 6,000
either side, 17cm (6 2/8in) high. (2). 漢 彩繪陶奩式爐 CNY36,000 - 54,000

£600 - 800 Published, Illustrated, and Exhibited: Please note this Lot is to be sold at
CNY5,400 - 7,200 Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, No Reserve.
London, 2005, no.23. 本拍品不設底價
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展 漢 青銅人物博山爐
覽》，倫敦，2005年，編號23
漢 灰陶扁壺 及灰陶雙耳罐 各一 Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London,
Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger thermoluminescence test no.C105h70 2009, no.3
Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, dated 2 March 2005, is consistent with the
2005, no.24 (flask) dating of this lot. 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展
覽》，
展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展 Oxford Authentication Ltd公司熱釋光檢測 倫敦，2009年，編號3
覽》，倫敦，2005年，編號24（扁壺） 結果（2005年3月2日，編號C105h70）顯示
年代與本拍品年代一致。 For a detailed discussion about boshanlu
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. incense burners, see J.Rawson, ‘Boshanlu:
thermoluminescence test no.C104y75 A lian of similar form, but with figure Mountain Censers of the Western Han
dated 15 November 2004, is consistent decoration, was excavated in 1963 in Period: A Typological and Iconological
with the dating of this lot. (flask) Luoyang, Henan Province; it now is in the Analysis’, in Archives of Asian Art, vol.45,
collection of the Henan Provincial Museum, 1992, pp.6-28. Mountain-shaped incense
Oxford Authentication Ltd公司熱釋光檢測 illustrated in Zhongguo Weneu Jinghua Da burners dating to the Han dynasty and
結果（2004年11月15日，編號C104y75）顯 Quan (Ceramics volume), Hong Kong, 1993, supported by human figures are much
示年代與本拍品年代一致。（扁壺） p.82, no.293. rarer then their simpler counterpart where
the mountain-shaped cover is supported
Vessels such as this, with lozenge-shaped on a stem foot. A bronze example related
mouths and twin flat handles have been to the present lot was excavated in 1968
discovered in present-day Sichuan and from the tomb of Dou Wan, consort of Liu
are known as Lifan ware, after the area in Sheng (d.113 BC), at Mancheng, Hebei
Sichuan Province where such jars have been Province, illustrated by J.Rawson, Mysteries
found. A similar vessel, Han dynasty, probably of Ancient China: New Discoveries from
from Sichuan, is in the British Museum (acc. the Early Dynasties, pp.172-173, no.82. A
no.1932,0216.1). closely-related example in the Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, Kansas City, is illustrated by
K.Munakata, Sacred Mountains in Chinese
Art, Chicago, 1991, p.72, no.17.