A PAIR OF SMALL GOLD 'TIGER-MASK' ORNAMENTS NORTHWEST CHINA, 5TH-4TH CENTURY BC OR LATER Each small, rounded gold sheet ornament is worked in repoussé as a tiger head with bulging eyes and pointed ears, the tiger's stripes indicated by curved grooves. Each 1 in. ( 2.6 cm.) wide; weight 2.7 and 2.5 g Provenance Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK30. Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 10.
A PAIR OF SMALL GOLD 'TIGER-MASK' ORNAMENTS NORTHWEST CHINA, 5TH-4TH CENTURY BC OR LATER Each small, rounded gold sheet ornament is worked in repoussé as a tiger head with bulging eyes and pointed ears, the tiger's stripes indicated by curved grooves. Each 1 in. ( 2.6 cm.) wide; weight 2.7 and 2.5 g Provenance Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK30. Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 10.
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