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Lot 656*

A PAIR OF GILT BRONZE OPENWORK 'RAMS' BELT BUCKLE SET
North China, 3rd/2nd century BCE

12 – 19 May 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

£2,000 - £3,000

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A PAIR OF GILT BRONZE OPENWORK 'RAMS' BELT BUCKLE SET

North China, 3rd/2nd century BCE
Each of rectangular form depicting a ram in mirror image with the head lowered, within a basket-weave border, fitted stand.
3.4cm (1 3/8in) high x 3.8cm (1 1/2in) wide. (3).

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公元前三/二世紀 鎏金銅羊紋帶鉤一對

Provenance: an American private collection, New York, 1990s

Published and Illustrated: T.Pang, Treasures of the Eurasian Steppes: Animal Arts from 800 BC to 200 AD, New York, 1998, no. 125.

Compare with a similar belt buckle set depicting oxen is published in E.C. Bunker Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, p.99, cat.no.66.

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