CIRCA 5TH-3RD CENTURY BC

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.