Emporium Hamburg
Auction 81-83 23-26 Oct 2018
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An especially fine archaic openwork bronze belt buckle
Beautifully cast and pierced with a tiger standing, decorated with zigzagging lines on its body, with a helpless deer with large antlers in is powerful jaws, a bright patina.
Length: 6,5cm, Height: 4cm
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).
Orientation June 1989, pg.52. http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20960/lot/511/
Beautifully cast and pierced with a tiger standing, decorated with zigzagging lines on its body, with a helpless deer with large antlers in is powerful jaws, a bright patina.
Length: 6,5cm, Height: 4cm
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).
Orientation June 1989, pg.52. http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20960/lot/511/