A Chinese gilt bronze belt plaque in the shape of a yak, North China

A Chinese gilt bronze belt plaque in the shape of a yak North China, 3rd-2nd century BC cast partially in relief in the shape of a recumbent yak or ox shown with its head resting on its foreleg and its tail flicked up onto its back 9cm long Provenance: Private Hampshire collection A similar pair of plaques is illustrated by E. C. Bunker et al., Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002, pp. 98-99, no. 65. As with the present plaque, they have two squared vertical loops on the reverse and show evidence of having been cast with the lost-wax/lost-textile process, as was another similar plaque, one half of a belt closure in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated by O. Karlbeck, B.M.F.E.A., No. 27, Stockholm, 1955, pl. 32. 西漢 銅鎏金臥牛形帶扣 拍品來源：英國漢普郡私人收藏 Condition Report: wear to the gilding and some Verdigris to the reserve side Condition Report Disclaimer, A Chinese gilt bronze belt plaque in the shape of a yak, A Chinese gilt bronze belt plaque in the shape of a yak North China, 3rd-2nd century BC cast partially in relief in the shape of a recumbent yak or ox shown with its head resting on its foreleg and its tail flicked up onto its back 9cm long Provenance: Private Hampshire collection A similar pair of plaques is illustrated by E. C. Bunker et al., Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002, pp. 98-99, no. 65. As with the present plaque, they have two squared vertical loops on the reverse and show evidence of having been cast with the lost-wax/lost-textile process, as was another similar plaque, one half of a belt closure in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated by O. Karlbeck, B.M.F.E.A., No. 27, Stockholm, 1955, pl. 32. 西漢 銅鎏金臥牛形帶扣 拍品來源：英國漢普郡私人收藏, Provenance:, Condition Report:, wear to the gilding and some Verdigris to the reserve side, Condition Report Disclaimer

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