China, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring Kingdoms period (475-22 - Lot 34

China, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring Kingdoms period (475-221 B.C.) Yellow gold (18k) repoussé belt buckle (daigou) or garment buckle, representing two young chilong dragons intertwined, with sinuous bodies covered in scales, the hook of the buckle formed by a dragon's head. L. 4 cm - Weight 16.98 g Base. The interlacing dragon motif is often found on fibulae from this period. Bronze clasps in a very similar style are held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 1974.268.19 (Warring Kingdoms), and at the Freer Gallery, Washington, inv. S2012.9.1769 (dated 6th/5th century BC). The Uldry collection contains a solid gold (and turquoise) buckle of very similar shape, dated 6th / 5th century BC: Chinesisches Gold und Silber, die sammlung Pierre Uldry, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, 1994, p. 71, no. 8.