Emporium Hamburg
Auction 81-83 23-26 Oct 2018
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A special archaic openwork bronze belt buckle
Beautifully cast and pierced with a tiger in motion, decorated with zigzagging lines on its body, with a helpless deer in is powerful jaws, a rich Nobel patina and some adhesions, the base of the buckle finished with twisting vertical incised lines, characteristic of the Ordos area in China.
Length: 8.6cm
Style of: Early Han (2nd century BC), age determination uncertain
This type of "animal" decoration around 1000 BC was widely spread throughout Eastern Asia, Mongolia and the Ordos Plateau in China. This particular design is very similar to a tigers on a chest found in Mongolia (see A.L. Mongait, Archaeology in the USSR, pl. 7, Pelican books, 1961).
Orientations June 1989, pg.52. A.L.Mongait, Archaeology in the U.S.S.R. pl.7. https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20960/lot/511
Beautifully cast and pierced with a tiger in motion, decorated with zigzagging lines on its body, with a helpless deer in is powerful jaws, a rich Nobel patina and some adhesions, the base of the buckle finished with twisting vertical incised lines, characteristic of the Ordos area in China.
Length: 8.6cm
Style of: Early Han (2nd century BC), age determination uncertain
This type of "animal" decoration around 1000 BC was widely spread throughout Eastern Asia, Mongolia and the Ordos Plateau in China. This particular design is very similar to a tigers on a chest found in Mongolia (see A.L. Mongait, Archaeology in the USSR, pl. 7, Pelican books, 1961).
Orientations June 1989, pg.52. A.L.Mongait, Archaeology in the U.S.S.R. pl.7. https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20960/lot/511