Siberian or North West Chinese Cast Openwork Bronze Belt Plaque

An Ancient South Siberian or North West Chinese Cast Openwork Bronze Belt Plaque Depicting Two Confronted Wild Yaks in the Hsiung-Nu Style
2nd - 1st Century B.C

Size: 5cm high, 11cm wide - 2 ins high, 4½ ins wide

Provenance:
Ex Hans Peter collection London
Ex Private UK collection acquired Eskenazi Ltd, June, 2003

cf: Metropolitan Museum, New York has a very similar plaque depicting ‘Confronted Bovines’ in the Eugene Victor Thaw Collection, catalogued as Southern Siberian, no. 113 pg. 139