HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

A pair of similar bronze weights in the collection of the Xian City Historical Park, Shaanxi province, was included in the exhibition , Treasures from the Han, The Empress Place, Singapore, May 1990 - May 1991, p. 53 (bottom). See, also, the example from the collection of Dr. Paul Singer illustrated by Bunker, Chatwin and Farkas, “Animal Style” Art from East to West, New York: The Asia Society, 1970, no. 80, and another illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, no. 234.