拍品 90
90
Various Properties
AN IMPORTANT TURQUOISE-INLAID REPOUSSE AND FILIGREE GOLD BUCKLE, of tapered rectangular form, intricately worked with a large striding kui dragon with stipled and filigree quils and limbs, with two smaller animals below and behind it, the rounded edge of the buckle with a similar smaller pair of confronted dragons all enclosed within a rope-twist border, pierced for attachment (losses to inlay, old dents), Han Dynasty 8.7cm. long

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AN IMPORTANT TURQUOISE-INLAID REPOUSSE AND FILIGREE GOLD BUCKLE, of tapered rectangular form, intricately worked with a large striding kui dragon with stipled and filigree quils and limbs, with two smaller animals below and behind it, the rounded edge of the buckle with a similar smaller pair of confronted dragons all enclosed within a rope-twist border, pierced for attachment (losses to inlay, old dents), Han Dynasty 8.7cm. long

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Cf. a very similarly worked buckle with dragons illustrated by
William Watson, Art of Dynastic China, pl. 626. Also, compare the filigree work on fragments in the Nanjing Museum excavated from a tomb at Ganquan Town Two, Guanjian County, Jiangsu Province in 1980, dating from the Eastern Han illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, The Crafts, Vol. 10, Gold, Silver, Glass and Enamels, figs. 40-42