拍品 375
375
A SET OF FIVE GILT BRONZE BEAR-SHAPED FITTINGS each circular plaque well-cast in high relief with the figure of a crouching bear, its paws drawn up towards its belly, with large ears and long snout, the reverse side of each cast with loop attachment (some malachite encrustation, damages), Western Han Dynasty

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A SET OF FIVE GILT BRONZE BEAR-SHAPED FITTINGS each circular plaque well-cast in high relief with the figure of a crouching bear, its paws drawn up towards its belly, with large ears and long snout, the reverse side of each cast with loop attachment (some malachite encrustation, damages), Western Han Dynasty
approximately 2cm. wide (5)

拍品專文

Similar fittings have been found in Western Han tombs, as well as in nomadic tombs, and based on the shape of the loops on the reverse appear to have served as decorations on leather horse trappings. Compare the example in the Hellstrom Collection, illustrated by Karlgren, B.M.F.E.A., no.20, 1948, pl.43, no.3 and another in the Collection of Baron Eduard von der Heydt included in the exhibition of his collection, Vienna, 1936, Catalogue no.56