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A RARE PUDDINGSTONE ‘TIGER’ MAT WEIGHT
Han Dynasty
The recumbent feline beast boldly carved with its paws and legs
neatly tucked underneath the body, its head slightly raised, detailed
with small ears and bulging eyes set under curving brows, the stone
cleverly used to represent the animal skin. 10.2cm (4in) long.

£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

漢 抱子石刻瑞獸

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd.,
Summer Exhibition, London, 2008, no.103

出版著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2008年，
編號103

For similar examples, see J.Li, Eternal China: Splendors from the First
Dynasties, Dayton, 1998, pp.142-143, no.53, for a pair of weights,
Western Han, unearthed in Xingping County and now in the Maoling 439
Museum, Xi’an, where it is noted that this type of stone is called
zhuyeyan (bamboo-leaf stone), and that objects carved from it are
quite rare. This type of mat weight is more commonly found cast in gilt-
bronze: see, for example, M.Wang, A Bronze Menagerie: Mat Weights
of Early China, Boston, p.79, fig.c, for an example in the collection of
the Shanghai Museum.

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