Lot 16. A circular bronze-backed gold-foil fitting, Warring States Period (475-221 BC), 8.2cm., 3 1/4 in. Estimate 800 — 1,200 GBP. Lot sold 1,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's

the thin gold foil decorated with a design of interlinked bands of finely striated raised ropes arranged around a central whirl motif, fixed to a round, slighly convex bronze backing, the reverse with heavy malachite encrustation. Weight 73.5g.

Exhibited: Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1954-55, cat. no. 7.

Literature: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 7.
Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 7.