A GILT-BRONZE OPENWORK RECTANGULAR PLAQUE

CIRCA 5TH-3RD CENTURY BC

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A GILT-BRONZE OPENWORK RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
CIRCA 5TH-3RD CENTURY BC
The plaque is cast in openwork as two rams confronted on three spoked motifs, possibly representing flowers, and with similar motifs between their legs, all within a double beaded border.
4 in. (10.3 cm.) wide

Provenance

The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, 1989.

Lot Essay

Compare the similar plaque illustrated by A. Salmony in Sino-Siberian Art in the Collection of C. T. Loo, Paris, 1933, pl. XXVIII (4), and another illustrated in Chugoku Sengoku jidai no bijutsu (The Art of the Warring States Period), Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1991, p. 149, no. 249, where it appears there may be some inlay remaining.

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