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Two pairs of Ordos Gilt Bronze Buckle Plaques, Mongolia, circa 2nd/1st Century B.C.
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description
- Two pairs of Ordos Gilt Bronze Buckle Plaques, Mongolia
- Widths 3 1/2 and 3 5/8 in. 8.9 and 9.2 cm.; 2 3/8 and 2 5/16 in. 6 and 5.9 cm.
comprising two plaques each cast in the form of a yak recumbent with his head resting on the right foreleg, one facing right, the other left, the surface with engraved tufts of shaggy hair and curvilinear ornament, and two openwork plaques each cast in the form of a recumbent yak with shaggy coat within a chevron-engraved frame, one animal facing right, the other left, each plaque with two vertical loops on the back.
Provenance
the first pair acquired at auction in Israel
Jacob's Gallery, London, for the second pair
Jacob's Gallery, London, for the second pair
Catalogue Note
Cf. Sotheby's, Schimmel Collection, no. 21, Glories of the Past, no. 49, and Sotheby's, New York, December 1996, no. 177, for the first.