HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

This finely cast fitting is very similar to one excavated from Han tomb no. 2 at Ganquan in Hanjiang, Jiangsu province, and illustrated in Wenwu, 1981:11, pl. 2, fig. 5, and p. 6, fig. 15. See, also, the similar fitting from the Eastern Han tomb of Xianyu Huang (d. AD 125) near Lancheng in Wuqing county, Hebei province, illustrated in Kaogu Xuebao, 1982:3, pl. 19, fig. 2. Compare another similar fitting formerly in the collection of Adolphe Stoclet (1871-1949), sold at A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection; Sotheby's New York, 18 March 2025, lot 145.