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Asian Art
Explore image in Pair of Belt plaques with Confronted Bovines
3rd–1st century B.C.E.
Bronze
2 3/8 × 4 7/16 × 1/4 in. (6 × 11.2 × 0.6 cm)
2 3/8 × 4 7/16 × 1/4 in. (6 × 11.2 × 0.6 cm)
2 3/8 × 4 7/16 × 1/4 in. (6 × 11.2 × 0.6 cm)
Gift of the Rubin-Ladd Foundation under the bequest of Ester R. Portnow
2010.205.13a-b
Geography:
Mongolia, China
Culture:
China, Mongolia
Period:
Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–221 B.C.E.), Warring States period (47
Classification:
Apparel/Costume
Provenance:
TK Asian Antiquities, Williamsburg VA, and NY; purchased on 10/21/2009 by The Rubin-Ladd Foundation, Georgetown, Conn. and New York; gift in 2010 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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