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the gold sheet folded over on the reverse, 9.8cm long
Provenance: Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, 2004.
Note: Han dynasty gold belt buckles of this shape are well documented, though typically they are chased and applied with decoration. This high relief repousse work unusual.
Cf. A Han dynasty belt buckle of this shape is in the Met Museum, New York, on load from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum, excavated from the site of Fortress Bogedaqin, Yanqi county, Xinjiang, 1975Please refer to department for condition report