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A RARE GREEN-GLAZED ‘YAKSHA’ LAMP
Northern Qi Dynasty
Modelled as a muscular male figure kneeling on a domed
base applied with lotus lappets, the figure with long hair,
elongated earlobes and hunched shoulders, supporting
on his head a bowl also applied with petals to the exterior,
covered overall in a glassy olive-green glaze, the base
unglazed revealing the red biscuit, box.
15cm (5 7/8in) high. (2).
£5,000 - 8,000
CNY45,000 - 72,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

北齊 綠釉胡人力士燭台

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd.,
Summer Exhibition, London, 2007, no.21

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，
倫敦，2007年，編號21

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd.
thermoluminescence test no.C206f40, dated 12
December 2006, is consistent with the dating of this lot.

Oxford Authentication Ltd.公司熱釋光檢測結果（2006年
12月12日，編號C206f40）顯示年代與本拍品年代一致。

Of Central Asian or Indian inspiration, vessels of this
type are typical of Chinese sculpture of the second half
of the 6th century. Examples of these vessels in various
mediums can be found in Museum collections worldwide.
51 See for example, an ivory pedestal base in the collection
of the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated by W.Watson,
Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing, London, 1984,
p.12, no.11. A pedestal with similar base and top is in the
collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
illustrated by W.Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain,
vol.1, New York, 1994, pl.27; and a related lamp with a
human-figure supporter is illustrated by M.A.Rogers in
‘Chinese Ceramics in the Matsuoka Museum of Art’, Part
1, Chinese Ceramics: Selected Articles from Orientations
1982-1998, Hong Kong, 1999, p.78, fig.18. Related
applied decoration can be seen on pottery excavated from
the tomb of Lou Rui (d.570 AD), examples of which are
illustrated by J.C.Y.Watt et al., China: Dawn of a Golden
Age, 200-750, New York, 2004, pp.244-245, nos.139-141.

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A FINE AND RARE GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID
RETICULATED BRONZE BELT HOOK
Warring States Period
Elaborately inlaid with shallow gold and silver sheet on the
upper face, the design cast as two deeply-entwined back-
to-back mythical birds with curling plumage principally
highlighted in silver sheet, the crested heads turning away
from each other to the sides at the upper end of the plaque,
beneath the hook formed as an animal head inlaid with two
gold eyes, the underside with a large stud, fitted box.
10.5cm (4in) long. (2).

£4,000 - 6,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

戰國 錯金銀鳥紋帶鉤

52 See a related example illustrated by B.Karlgren and
J.Wirgin, Chinese Bronzes: The Natanael Wessén
Collection, Stockholm, 1969, pl.62, no.50e.
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