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A GILT-BRONZE BELT PLAQUE OF A KNEELING CAMEL
3RD-2ND CENTURY BC
The plaque is cast in openwork with a man getting ready to mount a kneeling Bactrian
camel, his face visible between the humps as he grasps the humps to pull himself up.
Two vertical squared loops are on the reverse.
3¡ in. (8.5 cm.) wide
$2,000-3,000
PROVENANCE
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, acquired in Paris in 1996.
A similar belt plaque in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
is illustrated by J. F. So and E. C. Bunker, Traders and Raiders on China’s Northern
Frontier, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1995,
pp. 141-42, no. 61. Another similar gilt-bronze example from the Ernest Erickson
Foundation was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 6 December 1989, lot 31.
公元前三至二世紀 鎏金銅駱駝紋飾牌
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