现场拍卖 2297Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections
A GROUP OF RARE GOLD PLAQUES
拍品 1291

A GROUP OF RARE GOLD PLAQUES

WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, QIN CULTURE, CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY BC

已结束2010年3月26日

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A GROUP OF RARE GOLD PLAQUES
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, QIN CULTURE, CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY BC
Made from thick hammered gold sheet and with chased decoration, the largest of elongated arrow shape with elongated C-scrolls and pierced near the edges of the upper section for attachment; two of the plaques of slightly rhomboid shape with short extensions at two opposing corners, with hooked scrolls surrounding an oblong 'eye', the corners pierced; the fourth of rectangular shape with one barbed edge, with a band of conforming shape bordering two scale-shaped motifs, with double piercings at two corners
13 7/8, 4 5/8 and 4¾ in. (34.7, 11.8 and 12 cm.) long, box
Wt. 178.8, 55.5, 79.5 and 64.7 g. (4)

Acquired in Hong Kong in the 1980s.

专家说明

These rare gold sheet plaques are very similar to a group illustrated by Han Wei and Christian Deydier, Ancient Chinese Gold, Paris, 2001, pp. 28-31, pls. 20-25, which are dated Western Zhou dynasty, Qin culture, and are in a private collection. The authors discuss the discovery of a tomb in the east of Dabaozi mountain in Li county, Gansu province. The tomb was attributed to a nobleman of the state of Qin, possibly the Qin Marquis Zhong (845-822 BC), or his son the Qin Duke of Zhuang (822-778 BC), and contained gold sheet and gold objects, including "a set of gold sheets of fish-scale-like shape, square but with round, rectangular angles etc. and adorned with a lip design and C-shaped clouds".

A Technical Examination Report is available upon request.