A Pair of Ordos Bronze Plaques

3RD/2ND CENTURY B.C.

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A Pair of Ordos Bronze Plaques
3rd/2nd Century B.C.
Each cast in openwork with a carnivore attacking the foreleg of an ungulate with scrolled antler tines terminating in raptor heads, as does the tail, one with the remnants of a hook, the backs concave, with some pale green patina
4.3/8in. (11.1cm.) long (2)

拍品專文

A pair of similar belt plaques in the Leon Levy and Shelby White Collection was included in the exhibition, Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1995, pp. 146, no. 67. The authors, J. So and E. Bunker, note that a similar plaque was recovered from the second century B.C. cemetary at Xichagou, Xifeng Xian, northern Liaoning province, and that the iconograpy 'has been associated with the tribes that appeared on China's northwestern frontiers in the fourth century B.C. and introduced mounted warfare'.