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THE PROPERTY OF A HONG KONG PRIVATE COLLECTOR
          1603
          A RARE SMALL BRONZE FIGURAL LAMP
          WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)
                                                              EXHIBITED
          The base of the lamp is cast as a fgure with an almost beak-like mouth,   Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes,
          prominent eyes and hair drawn back into a point on the back of the head,   12 October - 2 December 1990.
          shown kneeling on a footed plinth. His left hand rests on his knee and his
          extended right hand holds the stem of the lamp, which is surmounted by a   LITERATURE
          shallow circular tray that would have held the wick.  J. Rawson and E. Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong,
                                                              1990, pp. 142-43, no. 46.
          5Ω in. (14 cm.) high
                                                              In Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 142, the authors,
          $12,000-18,000                                      Jessica Rawson and Emma Bunker, note that an almost identical lamp is in
                                                              the British Museum.
                                                              西漢   青銅神人燈
          PROVENANCE
          Acquired in Hong Kong by 1990.
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