Lot Essay
Tables of this type were made in lacquered wood, bronze and clay and have been found in Han tombs, including a very similarly constructed pottery example from a Han burial site in Huixian, Henan. See Wenwu, 1979:9, p. 70, fig. 7. A very similar green-glazed model of a table, also with detachable legs simulating hooved animal's feet, is discussed by Ferguson in "Chinese Furniture", Tianxia Monthly, March, 1937, pp. 246-253, fig. 1a, and also in his Survey of Chinese Art, Shanghai, 1940, pp. 109-115, pl. 176a
See, also, the Han mural painting depicting an ancestral offering scene with figures kneeling before a low table similar to the present lot from the central chamber of the five-chambered tomb at Yingchengci, South Manchuria, published by Wilma Fairbank in Adventures in Retrieval, Han Murals and Shang Bronze Molds, Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies, 1972, XXVII, fig. 13
A green-glazed pottery example is illustrated by R.L. Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection, Catalogue, vol. I, London, 1925, plate VIII, no. 50; and another was sold in these rooms, December 2, 1986, lot 61
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C97d1 is consistent with the dating of this lot
See, also, the Han mural painting depicting an ancestral offering scene with figures kneeling before a low table similar to the present lot from the central chamber of the five-chambered tomb at Yingchengci, South Manchuria, published by Wilma Fairbank in Adventures in Retrieval, Han Murals and Shang Bronze Molds, Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies, 1972, XXVII, fig. 13
A green-glazed pottery example is illustrated by R.L. Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection, Catalogue, vol. I, London, 1925, plate VIII, no. 50; and another was sold in these rooms, December 2, 1986, lot 61
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C97d1 is consistent with the dating of this lot