Tomb lamp in the form of a seated figure holding a child

In his object notes about this second-century Han dynasty tomb lamp, Freer called it "historically important." On his invoice from Yamanaka and Company, from whom he purchased this lamp in 1904, Freer added a note that the vessel was said to have come from the collection of a soldier in Beijing. The vessel is also iconographically interesting in that it bears the motif of a mother and child, traditional Chinese symbols of good luck, future progeny, and family survival.