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Cataloguer / Sale Coordinator, Chinese Works of Art

Senior Vice President, US Head, Asian Art Group

Senior Specialist

Vice President and Head of Department
西漢 青銅雁足燈
Provenance:
Lai's Antiques Ltd., Hong Kong, 1995
來源:
香港黎式藝術有限公司,1995 年
Compare a similar bronze 'goosefoot' lamp unearthed in 1995 in the northern suburb of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, illustrated by Zhixin Jason Sun in the catalog of special exhibition, Age of Empires: Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties, New York, 2017, p. 106, no. 30, noted by the author: 'Although this type of lamp was common in the Qin-Han period, such lamps or vessels fashioned with a single animal foot did not otherwise appear in ancient China. But bird- or beast-footed vessels were seen widely in the ancient Mediterranean world and in Central Asia.'