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4 août 2017

A set of four small Ordos gold stag plaques, 5th-3rd century BC

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Lot 2. A set of four small Ordos gold stag plaques, 5th-3rd century BC, 2.7cm., 1in. Estimate 2,000 — 3,000 GBP. Lot sold 20,900 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.

each cast as a recumbent stag, one the mirror-image of the other three, with the front and hind legs tucked under the body, the head turned upwards, the antlers in the form of three loops, the reverse set with two small loops for attachment. Quantity: 4. Weight 5g.

Exhibited: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1954-55, cat. no. 25..

Literature: Gyllensvärd, 1953, pl. 25.

Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 24.

Note: Similar plaques cast in bronze were found in a number of Ordos tombs in Hebei province and Inner Mongolia, illustrated in Zhongguo qingtong qi quanji, vol. 15, Beijing, 1995, pls. 150, 152- 153, and Erduosi shi qingtong qi, Beijing, 1986, p. 173, fig. 121 and pl. 88:1-5. Another set of twenty almost identical plaques but cast in bronze is in the collection of Leon Levy and Shelby White, illustrated in Jenny F. So and Emma C. Bunker, Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier,Washington D.C., 1995, cat. no. 83. Compare also a set of three cast gold recumbent stag, one with turquoise-inlaid antlers, illustrated in Simon Kwan and Sun Ji, Chinese Gold Ornaments, Hong Kong, 2003, pl. 77. 

Sotheby's. Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork, Early Gold and Silver; Early Chinese White, Green and Black Wares, London, 14 May 2008

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