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A PAIR OF ORDOS GILT-BRONZE ‘WATER BUFFALO’ BELT PLAQUES, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY BC
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2024年10月18日 开拍
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A PAIR OF ORDOS GILT-BRONZE ‘WATER BUFFALO’ BELT PLAQUES, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY BC

North China. Each rectangular reticulated plaque cast in mirror image with a bushy two-horned beast standing four-square with lowered head, one cast with an original loop for fastening within the herringbone border, each with two loops to the back. (2)

Provenance: From the collection of Mary McFadden. Mary McFadden (born 1938) is an American art collector, editor, fashion designer, and writer, who was born in New York City. During the 1960s she worked as the director of public relations for Dior New York. After marrying Philip Harari, a merchant for De Beers diamonds, they relocated to South Africa, where she worked as an editor for the South African Vogue from 1968 to 1970. In 1976 she established her own clothing company Mary McFadden Inc. and in 2012 she published a book titled ‘Mary McFadden: A Lifetime of Design, Collecting, and Adventure’.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, casting flaws, expected losses to the gilt, signs of weathering and erosion, small losses, nicks, scratches, and encrustations. The bronze with a naturally grown patina with malachite encrustations.

Weight: 23.8 g and 23.3 g
Dimensions: Length 4.6 cm and 4.2 cm

On a fitted black Perspex stand. (2)

Literature comparison:
Compare a related example illustrated by M. K. Hearn, Ancient Chinese Art: The Ernest Erickson Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987, no. 86, and also in Duan Shu'an, Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji: Zhongguo Meishu Fenlei Quanji, 15, Beijing, 1997, no. 113. For a related pair, see Jessica Rawson and Emma Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 340, no. 220.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 16 March 2017, lot 859
Price: USD 11,875 or approx. EUR 14,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A pair of gilt-bronze rectangular belt plaques, North China, 2nd century BC
Expert remark: Compare the related form, manner of casting, gilt, and subject. Note the larger size (9 cm).

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