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A GILT-BRONZE OPENWORK RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
CIRCA 5TH-3RD CENTURY BC
The plaque is cast in openwork as two rams confronted on three spoked motifs,
possibly representing fowers, and with similar motifs between their legs, all within a
double beaded border.
4 in. (10.3 cm.) wide
$3,000-5,000
PROVENANCE
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, 1989.
Compare the similar plaque illustrated by A. Salmony in Sino-Siberian Art in the
Collection of C. T. Loo, Paris, 1933, pl. XXVIII (4), and another illustrated in Chugoku
Sengoku jidai no bijutsu (The Art of the Warring States Period), Osaka Municipal
Museum of Art, 1991, p. 149, no. 249, where it appears there may be some inlay
remaining.
約公元前五至三世紀 鎏金銅羊紋飾牌
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