Emporium Hamburg
Auction 85-86 8-10 May
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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.
Style of: Early Han (2nd century BC), age determination uncertain
Length: 8.6cm
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.
Style of: Early Han (2nd century BC), age determination uncertain
Length: 8.6cm
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