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512 See the gilt-bronze belt buckle but missing the inset jade, unearthed
Two archaic bronze gold-inlaid belt buckles in Jinning county, Yunnan province in 1956, in the Yunnan Provincial
Museum, Yunnan Province, illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji
Western Han dynasty, Dian culture 14. Dian Kunming, Beijing, 1996, p.150, no.183. See also asimilar
excavated example of the other belt hook dated to the Warring States
Comprising one with arched body raised and hanging a downward period, in the Office of Cultural Relics Administrative Committee,
Shenmu County, Shaanxi province, illustrated in Bronzes from Northern
circular finial, one end with a head of a mythical beast, the other side Shaanxi. Volume V, Chengdu, 2009, p.851, accession no.SM686.

ending with a upturned dragon head finial, the mid-section hollowed

and inset with a carved archaic jade cicada, the rest decorated with

archaistic scrolls and gilt in gold; and another depicting a figure grasping
a bi disc above a circular hook at the rear, the body arched and ending in

an upturned serpent head.
The larger 17.1cm long. (2).
HK$150,000 - 250,000
US$19,000 - 32,000

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