CIRCA 5TH-4TH CENTURY BC

A similar ornament is illustrated by E.C. Bunker et al., Ancient Bronzes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1997, p. 233, no. 185, where it is ascribed to Northwestern China or Southwestern Inner Mongolia. Also illustrated, p. 233, fig. 185, is a similar ornament in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, which retains a rattle on one of the flanges which was attached after casting.