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

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A RARE SMALL BRONZE FIGURAL LAMP
MIDDLE-LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
The base of the lamp is cast as a man standing towards the back of a square plinth, and dressed in a short, thick, belted robe and creased boots, his hair pulled back and worn in a braid as well as gathered by a band knotted to one side. His face is simply delineated with straight lines detailing his mouth and mustache below a triangular nose cast in relief, while his eyes are oval outlines below linear, slightly upcurved brows. In his hands he holds a tube into which fits the stem of the lamp which is surmounted by a shallow, ribbed drip pan with a central pricket.
5 15/16 in. (15 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

来源

Mayuyama, Tokyo, Japan.
Senshutey, Tokyo, Japan, October 1998.

展览

Osaka Municipal Museum, Osaka, Japan, Chogoku Sengoku Jidai no Bijutsu (The Art of Warring States Period), 1991, p. 81, no. 100.

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The motif of a lamp supported by a figure appeared first during the Warring States period and continued into the Han dynasty. Several bronze figural lamps dating from the Warring States period and the Han dynasty have been published, including the example with an elaborately inlaid bronze figure from Pingshan, Hebei province, dated middle or late Warring States period, 4th century BC, illustrated by Guolong Lai, "Uses of the Human Figure in Early Chinese Art", Chinese Bronzes, Selected articles from Orientations 1983-2000, Hong Kong, 2001, pp. 326-32, fig. 10, which has a face of similar shape and an elaborate arrangement of the hair, similar to that of the present figure. The face of a kneeling figure, which forms the base of another lamp, of late Warring States date, fig. 9, is also similar, and the hair can be seen to be artfully arranged. Three small bronze figural lamps quite similar to the present example have also been published: one of smaller size (10.7 cm.) in the exhibition catalogue, Chogoku Sengoku Jidai no Bijitsu (The Art of Warring States Period), Osaka Municipal Museum, Osaka, Japan, 1991, p. 81, no. 99; one illustrated in Early Chinese art from tombs and temples, Eskenazi, 8 June - 9 July 1993, no. 7 (20.4 cm.); and another of somewhat larger size (22.2 cm.), sold at Christie's New York, 26 March 2010, lot 1275.