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A RARE PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE RECTANGULAR BELT PLAQUES
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)
Each plaque is cast in openwork with two tortoises encircled by the twisted body of a dragon with an open
mouth, and each has two vertical attachment loops on the reverse.
3¡ in. (8.7 cm.) long (2)
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE
Acquired in Hong Kong prior to 1989.
A similar gilt-bronze ‘tortoises and dragon’ belt plaque from the Calon da Collection 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, p. 158, no. 80. Compare, also, a pair of gold belt plaques
with almost identical decoration, from the Dayunshan, Jiangsu province, illustrated in Arts of Asia, Hong
Kong, May-June 2017, p. 130, no. 23.
西漢 鎏金銅龍龜紋飾牌一對
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