Belt Plaque with Man Subduing Ox | Yale University Art Gallery

3rd–2nd century B.C.E.

Medium: Gilt bronze
Dimensions: 1 5/8 × 2 3/16 × 3/16 in. (4.2 × 5.5 × 0.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Rubin-Ladd Foundation under the bequest of Ester R. Portnow
Accession Number: 2010.205.11
Geography: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Culture: China, Ordos, Inner Mongolia
Period: Warring States period (475–221 B.C.E.), Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.–9 C.E.)
Classification: Apparel/Costume
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Provenance

With Throckmorton Fine Arts, New York, by 2003; sold to the Rubin-Ladd Foundation, Georgetown, Conn., and New York, April 2003 (R-L inv. no. C0203 12) [see note 1]; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2010

Note 1: Information provided by the donor at the time of acquisition indicates “Belt Plaque with Man Subduing Ox” was purchased on April 1, 2003; an inventory of the collection notes the object was purchased 04/00/03 (The Rubin-Ladd Foundation Inventories, June 30, 2004, copy in accession file)

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Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

belt plaques, clothing

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