CIRCA 5TH-3RD CENTURY BC

A similar but smaller (2 ¾ in. long) tiger plaque, lacking the addition of the rabbit, in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, is illustrated by E. C. Bunker et al., “Animal Style” Art from East to West, The Asia Society, New York, 1970, p. 120, no. 94, where it is dated first half 5th century BC. See, also, the example, also lacking the rabbit, illustrated by A. Salmony, Sino-Siberian Art in the Collection of C. T. Loo, Paris, 1933, pl. XII (5).