A RARE BRONZE FIGURAL OIL LAMP

MIDDLE-LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC

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A RARE BRONZE FIGURAL OIL LAMP
MIDDLE-LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
Cast in two sections, the base solid-cast as a kneeling servant wearing a belted tunic painted with geometric decoration, and an arched cap tied beneath his chin, his hands holding a tube into which fits the base of the lamp which has a bamboo-like angled stem supporting a shallow circular bowl with ribbed sides and central spike, with reddish-brown patina and malachite encrustation
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high, box

來源

Acquired in Hong Kong, 1988.

展覽

The Glorious Traditions of Chinese Bronzes, Singapore, 2000, no. 58.
Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2002-2006.

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Bronze figural lamps of this type have been found in tombs dating from the middle or late Warring States period (475-221 BC). Two of these excavated examples depict kneeling figures. One kneeling man of large size (28.3 cm. high) in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, reputed to have come from a tomb at Jincun, Luoyang, Henan province, is illustrated by Guolong Lai, "Uses of the Human Figure in Early Chinese Art", Orientations, June 1999, pp. 49-55, fig. 8. As with the base of the present lamp, the man kneels, as if in respect, and holds a tube in his hands in front of his chest, the tube meant to hold the stem of the now-missing lamp. The kneeling man that forms the base of a lamp excavated from Shangcunling, Sanmenxia, Henan province, fig. 9, is stylisticallly more similar to the present figure, and also still retains the lamp, which has a bifurcated bottom and large channeled oil ring on top.