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846 LITERATURE
A GILT-BRONZE BELT PLAQUE IN THE SHAPE OF A YAK
NORTH CHINA, 3RD-2ND CENTURY BC J. F. So and E. C. Bunker, Traders and Raiders on China’s Northern
Frontier, Washington D.C., Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1995, p.
The plaque is cast partially in relief in the shape of a recumbent 140, no. 59b.
yak or ox shown with its head resting on its foreleg and its tail
ficked up onto its back. There are long hair markings on the A similar pair of plaques is illustrated by E. C. Bunker et al.,
body, and there are two squared loops projecting from the back Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes, The Metropolitan
which has a woven pattern indicating the plaque was cast using Museum of Art, New York, 2002, pp. 98-99, no. 65, where the
the lost-wax/lost-textile process. authors note that similar plaques “have been found all over
3¬ in. (9.2 cm.) long, box northern China”, including a pair in Shouzhou, Anhui province,
the capital of the state of Chu from 241 to 223 BC. As with the
$4,000-6,000 present plaque, they have two squared vertical loops on the
reverse and show evidence of having been cast with the lost-
PROVENANCE wax/lost-textile process, as was another similar plaque, one
half of a belt closure in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities,
Norbert Schimmel (1904-1990) Collection, New York. Stockholm, illustrated by O. Karlbeck, B.M.F.E.A., No. 27,
Antiquities from the Norbert Schimmel Collection; Sotheby’s Stockholm, 1955, pl. 32 (1).
New York, 16 December 1992, lot 21.
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida. 公元前三至二世紀 中國北部 鎏金銅犛牛紋飾牌
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