Photo Notes 铜羊灯
Copper sheep lamp, the Western Han Dynasty, through high 11.8cm, width 14.5cm.
Copper sheep lamp carved vertical angle sheep shaped, rounded body, limbs erect, stood gazing, charmingly naive. The sheep back is designed into a movable lamp disk, sheep body hollow is used to store oil. Chinese ancient" sheep" and" Xiang" in general, sheep shaped as lamp auspicious symbol.
The Han Dynasty lamps mainly fat as fuel, the general is an animal or plant oils and fats. When in use, tied into bundles in wick grease lit illumination, the ancients called" cream candle". Wick to strip the bark of Oriental sesame stem that Ma Xi (sound like ) made, placed a lamp plate.