Lot Essay
A very similar pair of mat weights from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk Jr. is illustrated by H. Trubner in Arts of the Han Dynasty, New York, 1961, p. 38, no. 57, and was subsequently sold at Christie's New York, The Falk Collection I, 16 October 2001, lot 181. Another example lacking the antlers is illustrated in Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst, Berlin, 1929, p. 60, no. 84.