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A BRONZE ‘WOLF’ OPENWORK BELT PLAQUE
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY BC
The plaque is cast in openwork as two recumbent wolves with long, open jaws that
share a common convex body and are shown in profle with their heads facing in
opposite directions. There are two attachment loops on the reverse. There is malachite
encrustation and traces of tinning on the front.
4 in. (10.2 cm.) wide
$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE

Michael Ward, Inc., New York, 1990.
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida.
Compare the smaller (8 cm. wide) related plaque illustrated by A. Salmony, Sino-
Siberian Art in the Collection of C. T. Loo, Paris, 1933, pl. XIV (3), which has a similar
confguration of two wolves with similarly elongated, open jaws, that share the same
body.

公元前三世紀 青銅雙狼紋飾牌

46 THE HARRIS COLLECTION:
IMPORTANT EARLY CHINESE ART