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Asian Art
Public domain

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)
Gift of the Rubin-Ladd Foundation under the bequest of Ester R. Portnow
2010.205.13a-b
Geography: 
Mongolia, China
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
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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