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THBRare Chinese Han Glazed Oil Lamps / Incense Burners
Lot 141
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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**Originally Listed At $1000**
East Asia, China, Han Dynasty, ca. 206 BCE to 220 CE. A rare collection of 4 pottery oil lamps or incense burners, the shallow bowls surmounted to the backs of mold made zoormorphs. The animal's heads had curly manes, horns, or ears - the details have softened with age and may be a mythical beast such as a dragon, qilin, or fu lion. The downward curving neck would have been inserted into a stand. The surfaces are green-glazed and has developed a silvery iridescence- the coloration due to a lead mixture - thus toxic, and for this reason most of this type of potter were used as grave goods from burials. Lamps and incense burners were used as mortuary objects in the tombs of the rich, the nobility, and warriors. Archaeologists have found both the burners and the presence of ashes containing aromatics inside elite tombs. Size of single burner: 3.5" L x 2.25" W x 5" H (8.9 cm x 5.7 cm x 12.7 cm); 6.5" H (16.5 cm) on included custom stand; Size of acrylic stand: 8" L x 8" W x 4.25" H (20.3 cm x 20.3 cm x 10.8 cm)
An example of an ornate Han lamp at the Minneapolis Institute of Art demonstrates how these pieces may have attached to a lamp stand. Please refer to the MIA's website, accession number: 99.68a-c.
Provenance: private Vero Beach, Florida, USA collection, acquired before 2003; ex- private English collection
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#177345Repairs and restoration to 2 bowls with new material. Losses to neck tenons on 3. Remains of adhesive residue from repairs. Chips and nicks to surfaces. Heavy silver iridescence. Displayed on a custom acrylic stand as they would have been arranged.Condition
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