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249 A VERY RARE BRONZE ‘FIGURURAL’ LAMP
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY
西漢 青銅跪人形燈

cast as a male kneeling figure holding the stem of a lamp on his right hand and his left hand resting on his knee, his face with
a prominent beak-shaped mouth and protruding eyes below back-swept hair, all supported on a rectangular plinth raised on
four angled feet, the surface with malachite encrustation

Height 4½ in., 11.8 cm
$ 20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE 來源
C.T. Loo, New York, 9th October 1958. 盧芹齋，紐約，1958年10月9日
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

The present lot belongs to a small group of bronze lamps, all of which are modeled with a distinctive ape-like
human figure kneeling on a plinth and holding the stem of the lamp tray in his hand, including one exhibited in
Ancient Chinese Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, cat. no. 46, and later sold at Christie’s New York,
22nd March 2019, lot 1603; another, formerly in the collection of Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, now in the British
Museum, London, acc. no. 1893, 1101.14; a third sold in these rooms, 4th June 1986, lot 206; and another, missing
both the lamp and the stem, in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in the
Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, pl. 251.

本品屬於一類少數青銅燈例，人像跪姿造型，足下有底 爵士收藏，館藏編號1893,1101.14；例三售於紐約蘇富
座，手持燈盤柄，一例曾展於《青銅聚英：中國古代與鄂 比1986年6月4日，編號206；例四現藏於東京出光美術
爾多斯青銅器》，香港藝術館，香港，1990年，編號46 館，燈及燈盤柄缺失，載於《中国の工芸：出光美術館蔵
，後售於紐約佳士得2019年3月22日，編號1603；倫敦 品図録》，東京，1989年，圖版251。
大英博物館現藏一例，曾屬Augustus Wollaston Franks

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