Western Han Dynasty The table of rectangular form raising from four detachable tapering feet, and with a rectangular hollowed container in the centre, its top painted in cinnabar with two seated figures on each side amidst clouds, on a layer of thin black lacquer, the feet painted with triangles on the upper section, box. 16.5cm (6 1/2in) high x 31.5cm (12 1/2in) wide x 23cm (9in) deep. (2).Footnotes西漢 黑漆朱繪雲氣人物紋六博秤 The present table was probably used as an accessory for liubo, a game believed to have emerged in the Spring and Autumn period and to be widely popular in the Han Dynasty. The game combines some rules of strategy games such as weiqi with some features of gambling games such as crapshoot, that gained greater popularity in the Han Dynasty from emperors to the lower classes. Compare with a liubo table with a related design, Western Han, which was unearthed in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, and is illustrated in the Zhongguo qiqi quanji (Lacquer Treasures from China), Fuzhou, 1995, vol.3, no.257. 長方形桌面，桌心凹陷成暗格，桌面髹黑漆，上繪朱色雲氣紋，每邊繪兩人長袍相對跪坐，下稱四足，可拆卸，上足繪朱漆三角重紋。 此桌桌面有博局T、L曲道，又有盛放籌碼六博子之暗格，惟呈長方形，與常見之四方形博局稍異，應為投簙所用之博秤。六博發軔於先秦，流行於漢代，南北朝之後式微。漢代六博不論皇帝還是庶民皆沉迷此戲，這一時期出土此類博具甚多。參考一件揚州出土之西漢六博秤，見《中國漆器全集》，福州，1995年，卷3，編號257。