A set of three gilt-bronze belt fittings
A set of three gilt-bronze belt fittings

KOFUN PERIOD (6TH CENTURY)

Details
A set of three gilt-bronze belt fittings
Kofun period (6th century)
Finely cast and designed with four pierced trefoils, details finely incised and punched with fish-roe pattern
2 ½ in. (6.4 cm.) each
Provenance
Mayuyama Junkichi, Tokyo, Japan
Nagao Ukichi
Nagao Museum, Osaka, Japan
Literature
Umebara Sueji, Kondosukashi ryumon obi kanagu ni tsuite (Gilt-bronze belt fittings with dragon design), Kokogaku zasshi dai gojukan dai yon go (1965. 3), fig. 4.

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