397 - A Chinese gilt bronze belt plaque in the shape of a yakNorth China, 3rd-2nd century BCcast 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 back9cm longProvenance:Private Hampshire collectionA 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

A Chinese gilt bronze belt plaque in the shape of a yakNorth China, 3rd-2nd century BCcast 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 back9cm longProvenance:Private Hampshire collectionA 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