Bidspirit auction | CHINESE FRAGMENT OF AN OPENWORK

CHINESE FRAGMENT OF AN OPENWORK GOLD PLAQUE - Ca. 600 - 300 BC. An openwork gold plaque fragment, cast of two animals coiled around each other into a circle, their legs in the centre. The plaque has a circular frame of joined bird heads with long beaks and pronounced eyes. For similar examples in bronze see: Erduosi shi qingtong qi, Beijing, 1986, p. 120, fig. 86:6-9 and pl. 81:5-7. Size: 45mm x 40mm; Weight: 15g. Provenance: Prince collection, 1990s-2014. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.