136 FOUR ORDOS BRONZE GARMENT PLAQUES Ordos, Circa 5th - 4th Century B.C. Of S-shape with addorsed felines, holding hold doe heads in their mouths, 5cm high, (4)
137 FOUR ORDOS BRONZE OPENWORK PLAQUES Ordos, Circa 5th - 4th Century B.C. Four Ordos bronze rectangular openwork belt plaques each with four backwards facing kneeling does, their eyes and ears pierced, 5 x 2.9cm, (4)
Literature: A similar example is in the Sackler collection, see: Emma C. Bunker, Ancient Bronzes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes, New York 1997, no. 176A, p. 228. For another similar example see: Jean Paul Barbier, Art des Steppes. Ornements et pièces de mobilier funéraire scytho-sibérien dans les collections du Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva 1996, no. 23, p. 44. Provenance: Private collection, UK.
Literature: For a similar example, the animals described as kulan, see Emma C. Bunker with James C.Y. Watt and Zhixin Sun, ‘Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes. The Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections’, New York 2002, p. 161, no. 139. Three other examples dated to the 4th-2nd century BC are now in Geneva, Jean Paul Barbier, ‘Art des Steppes. Ornements et pièces de mobilier funéraire scytho-sibérien dans les collection du Musée Barbier-Mueller’, pp.46-47, nos. 31-33.
£400-£600
Provenance: Private collection UK. £500-£700
138 AN ORDOS BRONZE GARMENT HOOK Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, Circa 4th - 3rd Century B.C. The hook in the form of two symmetrical pairs of serpents with pebbled bodies at the shield-shaped lower edges, the button on the reverse with similar serpents depicted, 4.4cm long. Provenance: Pan Asian collection New York; Private collection UK, acquired 1982.
139 AN ORDOS BRONZE GARMENT HOOK Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Warring States Period, Circa 4th Century B.C. The hook in the form of interlacing dragons, with their scales and facial features finely incised, 4.5 cm long. Provenance: Private collection, UK. £200-£300
£100-£200
140 AN ORDOS BRONZE PLAQUE Ordos, Circa 5th - 4th Century B.C. In the form of a fragmentary ring, surmounted by two adorsed horses, 4.5cm long.
141 A CHINESE BRONZE BRIDLE FITTING Western Han, 3rd - 2nd Century B.C. In the form of a domed cap with a frontal crouching bear, with traces of gilt surviving, the reverse with two vertical loops, 1.7cm diameter.
Provenance: Private collection, UK.
Literature: For similar examples see: Emma C. Bunker with James C.Y. Watt and Zhixin Sun, ‘Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes. The Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections’, New York 2002, no. 18-20, pp. 53-4. A further example is in the Sackler collection, see Emma C. Bunker, ‘Ancient Bronzes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes’, New York 1997, no. 228, p. 263; Also Debra Noel Adams, Emma C. Bunker, Trudy Kawami, Robert Morkot, Dalia Tawil, ‘When Orpheus Sang’ (Paris, 2004) pp. 90-91, nos. 90-92.
£100-£200
Provenance: Private collection UK. £200-£300 32
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