www.Palace-Lamp.com
All photos on this site are of my Palace Lamp. Which has the same design and size ( 45 cm high, 33 cm wide, 33 cm depth) as the gilded Bronze human shaped lamp of the Western Han Dinasty, at Hebei Provincial Museum. Unearth in Mancheng county, Hebei Province in 1968. The lamp is one of the most treasure pieces in the collection of Hebei Provincial Museum, and was on display at the Hebei Pavilion of Shanghai world Expo 2010. The lamp is on the list of Chinese cultural relics forbidden to be exhibited abroad. The only existing or fragile relics among the grade-one-relics are prohibited from being taken out of the Country for exhibition. See links below.
All photos, movies are not to be copied without my permission
This script is on the upper part of the chimney.
This script is on the bottom part of the chimney
This script is on the lantern.
This one is just above the palace maid hand that holds the lantern.
Upper part chimney
The lantern
Links for the history of this palace lamp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_cultural_relics_forbidden_to_be_exhibited_abroad
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2009-03/30/content_11570067.htm
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2011-04/26/content_12394515.htm
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChangXingongdeng.jpg