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A RARE LARGE GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY ‘BEAR’ LAMP A GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY MODEL OF A STOVE
STAND Eastern Han Dynasty
Eastern Han Dynasty The well-potted model decorated along the top edge and flat side
The columnar stand with a spreading stepped base, pierced with a with a cross-hatch brick pattern, the top with two circular aperture for
triangular aperture above which sits a bear, naturalistically rendered cooking, the surface covered with a green lead glaze transforming in
with lidded eyes, well-defined ruff around its face, mouth open to places to a silvery iridescence, Japanese wood box.
reveal the teeth and forepaws resting on the knees, supporting the 32cm (12 1/2in) long. (2).
hollow stem decorated with two encircling lines below the wide round
tray, covered overall with an iridescent green glaze. £1,000 - 2,000
39.8cm (16 6/8in) high. CNY9,000 - 18,000
£1,500 - 2,000 Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
CNY14,000 - 18,000
東漢 綠釉陶灶
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
Provenance: The Toguri Museum of Art, no.230 (label)
東漢 綠釉熊形燈 Sotheby’s Olympia, London, 10 June 2004, lot 551 (part lot)

Provenance: Bluett and Sons Ltd., London (label) 來源：東京戶栗美術館，編號230（標籤）
倫敦蘇富比奧林匹亞，2004年6月10日，拍品編號551（部分）
Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter
Exhibition, London, 2003, no.20 The Toguri Museum of Art, Tokyo, was founded in 1987 by Mr Tohru
Toguri, a Japanese businessman and eminent collector of Asian art.
來源：倫敦古董商Bluett and Sons Ltd.（標籤） It is acclaimed for Japanese, Chinese and Korean ceramics, and has
one of the finest collections of ceramics in Japan. Mr Toguri began
出版著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2003年， collecting Chinese ceramics as early as the 1960s, but it was during
編號20 the 1970s and 80s that the bulk of the Chinese collection was formed.

The word for bear (xiong 熊), is homophone for ‘brave and powerful’ This miniature stove would have been interred in burials dating to
(xiong 雄), and the ‘Rites of Zhou’ (Zhou Li 周禮), edited during the the Han dynasty, and together with a large variety of furnishing,
Han dynasty, refers to seasonal exorcist rituals involving the performer including models of wells, carriage sheds, pens, stables, animals and
wearing a bear skin to drive away pestilences. agricultural and farm workers, aimed at sustaining the tomb occupants
in their afterlife. See related examples illustrated by C.J.Lewis, Into
Compare with a similar green-glazed lamp stand, dated Han dynasty, the Afterlife: Han and Six Dynasties Chinese Tomb Sculpture from
illustrated by S.Hayashiya and G.Hasebe, Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, the Schloss Collection, New York, 1990, no.10; one in the Royal
1966, p.31, pl.25. Another related example in the British Museum, Ontario Museum, illustrated by A.Paludan, Chinese Sculpture: A
London, is illustrated in the Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Great Tradition, Chicago, 2006, fig. 56; and another in the Ashmolean
Chinese Art, 1935-1936, London, no.453. Museum, illustrated by W.Watson, Pre-Tang Ceramics of China:
Chinese Pottery from 4000 BC to 600 AD, London, 1991, pl.143.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
30 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.