A VERY RARE BRONZE 'FIGURAL' LAMP WESTERN HAN DYNASTY
cast as a male kneeling figure holding the stem of a lamp on his right hand and his left hand resting on his knee, his face with a prominent beak-shaped mouth and protruding eyes below back-swept hair, all supported on a rectangular plinth raised on four angled feet, the surface with malachite encrustation
Height 4 1/2 in., 11.8 cm
Provenance:
C.T. Loo, New York, 9th October 1958.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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cast as a male kneeling figure holding the stem of a lamp on his right hand and his left hand resting on his knee, his face with a prominent beak-shaped mouth and protruding eyes below back-swept hair, all supported on a rectangular plinth raised on four angled feet, the surface with malachite encrustation
Height 4 1/2 in., 11.8 cm
Provenance:
C.T. Loo, New York, 9th October 1958.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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