A GILT-BRONZE BELT PLAQUE OF A KNEELING CAMEL

3RD-2ND CENTURY BC

Details

A GILT-BRONZE BELT PLAQUE OF A KNEELING CAMEL
3RD-2ND CENTURY BC
The plaque is cast in openwork with a man getting ready to mount a kneeling Bactrian camel, his face visible between the humps as he grasps the humps to pull himself up. Two vertical squared loops are on the reverse.
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, acquired in Paris in 1996.

Lot Essay

A similar belt plaque in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 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, pp. 141-42, no. 61. Another similar gilt-bronze example from the Ernest Erickson Foundation was sold at Sotheby's New York, 6 December 1989, lot 31.

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