A rare silver-inlaid bronze belt buckle, Warring States period - Han dynasty

Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

Compare several larger silver-inlaid bronze belt hooks of a similar form, including two decorated with different geometric patterns, from the late Warring States period to the early Han dynasty, formerly in the Sakamoto Collection, published in Hayashi Minao and Higuchi Takayasu, Fugendō Sakamoto Gorō Chūgoku seidōki seishō [Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Sakamoto Collection], Tokyo, 2002, pl. 309; one in the collection of Crown Prince of Sweden Gustaf Adolf, published in Nils Palmgren, Selected Chinese Antiquities from the Collection of Gustaf Adolf, Stockholm, 1948, pl. 29, fig. 6.