TWO FINE BRONZE BELT BUCKLES WITH INLAYS IN JADE, GOLD AND TURQUOISE, THE LARGER BUCKLE WITH INSCRIPTION

Estimated Value:

1.500 € - 2.500 €

Schätzpreis:

1.500 €

Description:

China, Warring States period
L. 21,2 und 15 cm
The present specimens both have beveled fronts and are decorated with turquoise and jade pieces, as well as gold and silver inlays in niello technique in a typical touch, as they were made for wealthy and high-ranking personalities in the Zhangguo period, despite all political turmoil. Their dense, mosaic-like ornaments show abstract geometric and floral motifs arranged around central flower forms.
Important Austrian private collection, acquired on 11.6.1993, lot 253 at Lempertz in Cologne
Publ. Zeileis: "From Shang to Qing - Three and a Half Millennia of Chinese Bronze", 1999, no. 131, p. 339
Cf. a similar hook from the collection of the Palace Museum Beijing, published 'Bronze Articles for Daily Use - The Complete Collection of Treasures in the Palace Museum', Hong Kong 2006, no. 28, p. 31 and a similar hook from the Jacobsen collection, auctioned Christie's New York, 25.9.2020, lot 1529
Partial losses of the inserts, rest. break at the end of the larger hook

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