A CHINESE SILVER BUCKLE OR PLAQUE FORMED AS A TIGER AND TWO SERPENTS

A CHINESE SILVER BUCKLE OR PLAQUE FORMED AS A TIGER AND TWO SERPENTS
PROBABLY EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

A serpent escapes from the tiger’s jaws and bites the tail of a second snake which in turn bites the tail of the tiger. The feline is depicted in profile and decorated with two circular designs, the recessed reverse is undecorated, 35g, 6.9cm long.

Provenance: from the collection of Adolphe Stoclet, 1871-1949.

Published: H F E Visser, Asiatic Art, Amsterdam, 1947, no.54, pl.41. & Georges A Salles and Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Adolphe Stoclet Collection (part I), Brussels, 1956, pp.346-347b.

Cf. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, for a bronze plaque of this design, accession number 20.158. See also Gisèle Croës, from the Steppes to the Great Wall, 2021 catalogue, p.37 for another related plaque.

東周（可能） 銀製虎型佩或鈕

來源：Adolphe Stoclet (斯托克萊1871-1949）收藏。

出版：H F E Visser, Asiatic Art, Amsterdam, 1947年, 編號54, 圖版41 及Georges A Salles and Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Adolphe Stoclet Collection (part I), Brussels, 1956年, 頁346-347b。