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TWO BRONZE FIGURAL MAT WEIGHTS Such bronze mat weights would originally have come in sets of four,
Han dynasty such as the Han dynasty set in the collection of the Metropolitan
Each cast as a kneeling male figure with left hand placed on the left Museum of Art in New York, accession number 2003.522.4, consisting
knee, dressed in a tunic, with a round expressive face beneath hair of two liubo players, similar to the two figures in the present lot, and
gathered into a topknot; one figure with outstretched right arm and two spectators, one of which is similar to lot XXXX. Another set of four
open palm, with traces of gold inlay, the other figure with open right similar bronze weights unearthed in 1971 in the city of Xi’an in Shaanxi
palm raised to ear level and green surface patination. province is illustrated in Treasures from the Han, The Empress Place
3 1/8in (8cm) high Museum, Singapore, 1990, p. 59; and a set of four dated Eastern
Han dynasty was sold at Christie’s New York, 16 September 2010, lot
US$12,000 - 18,000 893. A set of four gold-inlaid bronze figures excavated from a Western
Han dynasty tomb at Dayun Mountain, Xuyi, Jiangsu province, now
in the Nanjing Museum are illustrated in Chang wu xiangwang: du
漢 青銅六博俑席鎮兩件 Xuyi Dayunshan Jiangdu wangling (A Survey of the Mausoleum of the
Prince of Jiangdu at Dayunshan, Xuyi), Nanjing, 2013, pp.322–327.
Provenance
Private collection, New York Liubo was an ancient Chinese board game invented no later than the
Christie’s East, New York, 20 March 2000, lot 268 middle of the 1st millennium BCE. Though widely played during the
Han dynasty, it rapidly declined in popularity thereafter.
來源
紐約私人收藏
紐約佳士得，2000年3月20日，拍品編號268

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