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TWO BRONZE FIGURAL MAT WEIGHTS
Han dynastyEach cast as a kneeling male figure with left hand placed on the left knee, dressed in a tunic, with a round expressive face beneath hair gathered into a topknot; one figure with outstretched right arm and open palm, with traces of gold inlay, the other figure with open right palm raised to ear level and green surface patination. 3 1/8in (8cm) high
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漢 青銅六博俑席鎮兩件Provenance Private collection, New YorkChristie's East, New York, 20 March 2000, lot 268來源紐約私人收藏紐約佳士得,2000年3月20日,拍品編號268Such bronze mat weights would originally have come in sets of four, such as the Han dynasty set in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, accession number 2003.522.4, consisting of two liubo players, similar to the two figures in the present lot, and two spectators, one of which is similar to lot XXXX. Another set of four similar bronze weights unearthed in 1971 in the city of Xi'an in Shaanxi province is illustrated in Treasures from the Han, The Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1990, p. 59; and a set of four dated Eastern Han dynasty was sold at Christie's New York, 16 September 2010, lot 893. A set of four gold-inlaid bronze figures excavated from a Western Han dynasty tomb at Dayun Mountain, Xuyi, Jiangsu province, now in the Nanjing Museum are illustrated in Chang wu xiangwang: du Xuyi Dayunshan Jiangdu wangling (A Survey of the Mausoleum of the Prince of Jiangdu at Dayunshan, Xuyi), Nanjing, 2013, pp.322–327. Liubo was an ancient Chinese board game invented no later than the middle of the 1st millennium BCE. Though widely played during the Han dynasty, it rapidly declined in popularity thereafter.