A bronze belt buckle with silver and turquoise inlaysWarring States (475 to 221 BCE)18.2cm highProvenance: Provenance:Soo Tze Orientique, Melbourne, 1995戰國 銅錯銀鑲綠松石帶鈎傳承:墨爾本 Soo Tze Orientique，1995年Decorations on metal belt buckles are oftentimes symmetrical, unlike their jade counterparts especially of later period of reticulated types. This buckle however incorporates an asymmetrical motif of a serpentine creature with stylised scales, swirling down the entire body of the buckle - a design method not dissimilar to late jade buckles decorated with reticulatedchi-dragons. Its surface is not of a smooth curvature, but with two angular folds. This shape can be see in another example in the collection of H.M. King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, seeChinese Art from the Collection of H.M. King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Tokyo and Osaka, 1971, no.35.