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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE LAMP WITH GOOSEFOOT STAND
Western Han Dynasty

15 September 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE LAMP WITH GOOSEFOOT STAND

Western Han Dynasty
The ring-shaped pan supported on one end by a bird's leg with webbed foot standing firmly on a trapezoid base, the surface with light encrustations of malachite and earth, seven characters incised on the exterior of the pan indicating weight of the metal.
5 7/16in (13.8cm) high

Footnotes

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.'

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