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1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm.) wide; weight 6.8 g
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no.CK23. Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 3 (part).
This superbly cast and finished plaque is similar to two published bronze examples. One is illustrated by Mayke Wagner and Herbert Butz in Nomandenkunst: Ordosbronzen der Ostasiatischen Kunstsammlung, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Mainz, 2007, p. 46, no. 36, where it is ascribed to Northeast China, 9th-7th century BC. The other is illustrated by Jessica Rawson and Emma Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1990, pp. 310-11, no. 192. Both of these have a single strap on the reverse.
