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A BRONZE TWO-PART BELT BUCKLE
WITH TIGER AND RAPTOR
3RD-2ND CENTURY BC

Both plaques are cast in openwork as a
raptor and a tiger attacking each other.
The raptor is wildly fapping its wings
and tail while biting the neck of the tiger
which has the leg of the raptor grasped in
its jaws. One plaque has a tab-like hook
at one end.
4æ in. (12.1 cm.) wide, box

(2)

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

Christie’s London, 10 December 1990,
lot 14.
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami,
Florida.

Compare the similar plaque illustrated
by A. Salmony, Sino-Siberian Art in
the Collection of C. T. Loo, Paris, 1933,
pl. XII (1). See, also, the related belt
buckle of two raptors attacking two
tigers illustrated by E. C. Bunker et al.,
Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian
Steppes, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, 2002, pp. 102-103, no. 70,
which is also dated 3rd-2nd century BC.

公元前三至二世紀 青銅虎噬禽紋
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48 THE HARRIS COLLECTION:
IMPORTANT EARLY CHINESE ART