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《Bronze Bed Lamp》


This Bed Lamp is 3.5cm high, 12.1cm wide,and weighs 400g.

The bronze lamp, the heritage of the Western Han dynasty, is an ancient bedside lamp. It is container-shaped, with short straight body and flat bottom. Its three feet in shape of beast claw has broken. On the lamp there are the inscription of 16 words, illustrating its name and time of making. The copper lamp is in good condition and covered with copper rust. A wide variety of copper lamps were quite popular in ancient times for a long time, generally from the Warring States Period to Wei and Jin Dynasties, especially in the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties. These lamps are the representative of ancient lamps and lanterns.