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A bronze 'kneeling birdman' lamp, Han dynasty | 漢 青銅羽人形燈

Auction Closed

October 9, 07:30 AM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 HKD

Lot Details

Description

A bronze 'kneeling birdman' lamp, 

Han dynasty

漢 青銅羽人形燈


modelled as a kneeling figure with neatly combed hair of medium length, prominent eyes, a flat triangular nose, a tightly closed beak, and a short tail, his left hand resting on his folded knee, his right arm outstretched, raising a shallow lamp dish, all supported by a pedestal with four cornered feet


14.2 cm

Eskenazi Ltd, London, 19th April 1988.


埃斯卡納齊，倫敦，1988年4月19日

Jessica Rawson and Emma C. Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, cat. no. 46.


羅森及愛瑪．賓格，《青銅聚英：中國古代與鄂爾多斯青銅器》，香港，1990年，編號46

The present lot belongs to a small group of bronze lamps, all of which are modelled with a distinctive ape-like human figure kneeling on a plinth and holding the stem of the lamp tray in his hand, sold at Christie's New York, 22nd March 2019, lot 1603; another, formerly in the collection of Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, now in the British Museum, London, accession no. 1893,1101.14; an example attributed to the Western Han dynasty in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, accession no. S2012.9.2133; one missing the lamp dish, from C.T. Loo and the collection of Stephen Junkunc, III, sold in our New York rooms, 10th September 2019, lot 249; another sold in our New York rooms, 4th June 1986, lot 206; and a further example, missing both the lamp and the stem, in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, pl. 251.