A small bronze oil lamp, Han dynasty | 漢 銅油燈

Guy Portier, Paris, 22nd February 1969, lot 7.

Collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-1997).

Wou Lien-Pai Museum, 1969-present, coll. no. H.1.1. 

Guy Portier，巴黎，1969年2月22日，編號7

吳權博士 (1910-1997) 收藏

吳蓮伯博物院，1969年至今，編號H1.1

Compare an inscribed bronze oil lamp in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum - Bronze Articles for Daily Use, Hong Kong 2006, pl. 90; another, published in C.F. Kelley and Chen Mengji, Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection, Chicago, 1946, p. 199, pl. LXIX; and a third example, from the collection of Sano Art Museum, Mishima, Japan, sold at Christie's New York, 22nd March 2013, lot 1245.