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A LACQUERED WOODEN ‘LIUBO’ CHESS GAME TABLE The present table was probably used as an accessory for liubo, a
Western Han Dynasty game believed to have emerged in the Spring and Autumn period
The table of rectangular form raising from four detachable tapering feet, and to be widely popular in the Han Dynasty. The game combines
and with a rectangular hollowed container in the centre, its top painted some rules of strategy games such as weiqi with some features of
in cinnabar with two seated figures on each side amidst clouds, on a gambling games such as crapshoot, that gained greater popularity in
layer of thin black lacquer, the feet painted with triangles on the upper the Han Dynasty from emperors to the lower classes. Compare with a
section, box. liubo table with a related design, Western Han, which was unearthed
16.5cm (6 1/2in) high x 31.5cm (12 1/2in) wide x 23cm (9in) deep. (2). in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, and is illustrated in the Zhongguo qiqi quanji
(Lacquer Treasures from China), Fuzhou, 1995, vol.3, no.257.
HKD50,000 - 80,000
US$6,400 - 10,000 長方形桌面，桌心凹陷成暗格，桌面髹黑漆，上繪朱色雲氣紋，每邊繪兩
人長袍相對跪坐，下稱四足，可拆卸，上足繪朱漆三角重紋。
西漢 黑漆朱繪雲氣人物紋六博秤
此桌桌面有博局T、L曲道，又有盛放籌碼六博子之暗格，惟呈長方形，
與常見之四方形博局稍異，應為投簙所用之博秤。六博發軔於先秦，流
行於漢代，南北朝之後式微。漢代六博不論皇帝還是庶民皆沉迷此戲，
這一時期出土此類博具甚多。參考一件揚州出土之西漢六博秤，見《中
國漆器全集》，福州，1995年，卷3，編號257。

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