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TWO GILT-BRONZE RECTANGULAR BELT
845 BUCKLE PLAQUES
A SMALL GILT-BRONZE RECTANGULAR BELT PLAQUE NORTH CHINA, 3RD-2ND CENTURY BC
NORTH CHINA, 2ND-1ST CENTURY BC The plaques are cast in mirror image, each with
The plaque is cast with three recumbent rams shown with their a complex, dense design of a wolf, its large head
forelegs folded beneath their bodies and their hindquarters slung facing the inner edge and its two paws visible at
over their heads, all within a triple rope pattern border. Two vertical the bottom edge either side of two argali rams,
attachment loops are on the reverse. their bodies curved backwards and their hind
2¡ in. (6 cm.) wide legs slung over their heads, all below a narrow
row of gazelle heads and a narrow band of eared
$2,000-3,000 raptor heads at the edge. Each has two vertical
loops on the reverse and one has a hole.
PROVENANCE 3æ and 3Ω in. (9.5 and 9 cm.) wide, box

The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1995. (2)
$4,000-6,000
LITERATURE
PROVENANCE
J. F. So and E. C. Bunker, Traders and Raiders on China’s Northern
Frontier, Washington D.C., Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1995, p. 145, Pierced plaque: J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 3
no. 65. October 1990.
Other: Acquired in Paris, 1994.
公元前二至一世紀 中國北部 鎏金銅帶飾 The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida.

50 THE HARRIS COLLECTION: LITERATURE
IMPORTANT EARLY CHINESE ART
J. F. So and E. C. Bunker, Traders and Raiders
on China’s Northern Frontier, Washington D.C.,
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1995, p. 143, no. 63.
An almost identical plaque found at Xichagou,
Xifeng, Liaoning province, is illustrated by E.
C. Bunker et al., Ancient Bronzes of the Eastern
Eurasian Steppes from the Arthur M. Sackler
Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation,
1997, p. 78, fg. A110.

公元前三至二世紀 中國北部 鎏金銅獸
紋飾牌兩件

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