Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities, including Property of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

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Lot 89
  • 89

A Pair of Ordos Bronze Buckle Plaques, 2nd half of the 1st Millennium B.C.

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • A Pair of Ordos Bronze Buckle Plaques
  • Lengths 3 3/8 in. 8.6 cm.
each cast in openwork technique in the form of a striding feline, one facing right, the other facing left, holding a small equine or goat in his jaws, the feline with punched legs and long ribbed tail forming a loop at the end. 

Provenance

David David-Weill, Paris (Hotel Drouot, Paris, Collection David-Weill. Bronzes antiques des steppes et de l'Iran, June 28th-29th, 1972, no. 57, illus.)
J.J. Klejman, New York

Literature

Paul Pelliot, “Quelques réflexions sur l’art sibérien et l’art chinois, à propos de bronzes de la collection David-Weill," Documents, vol. 1, April 1st, 1929, p. 13, illus.