A PAIR OF ORDOS GILT-BRONZE RECTANGULAR PLAQUES 2ND CENTURY B.C. Each cast in low relief with a pair of mythical, winged horse-like animals shown kneeling towards the outer edge, their back legs impossibly thrown up and over their backs and their bodies decorated with striated reserves, their long, striped tails terminating in eared raptor heads, all crowded within a double rope-twist border, each with two loops on the reverse, turquoise and rust encrustation--4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.) long (2)
A PAIR OF ORDOS GILT-BRONZE RECTANGULAR PLAQUES 2ND CENTURY B.C. Each cast in low relief with a pair of mythical, winged horse-like animals shown kneeling towards the outer edge, their back legs impossibly thrown up and over their backs and their bodies decorated with striated reserves, their long, striped tails terminating in eared raptor heads, all crowded within a double rope-twist border, each with two loops on the reverse, turquoise and rust encrustation--4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.) long (2)
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