A rare and important gold and silver-inlaid bronze disc, Late Warring States period / Western Han dynasty

Collection of Robert Woods (1875-1962) and Mildred Barnes (1879-1969) Bliss.

C.T. Loo, New York, 13th April 1959.

Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

Christie's New York, 21st September 2000, lot 178.

Osvald Sirén, Histoire des Arts Anciens de la Chine. Volume II: L'époque Han et les Six Dynasties [History of the Ancient Art of China: Vol II: The Han Periods and the Six Dynasties], Paris and Brussel, 1929, pl. 46A.

Umehara Sueji, Shina Kodo Seika / Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America, vol. I, Osaka, 1933, pl. 56.

Osvald Sirén, Kinas Konst under tre Årtusenden [Chinese Art through Three Millennia], Stockholm, 1942, fig. 125.

Chinesische Kunst [Chinese Art], Preussische Akademie de Künste, Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 29.

International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-36, cat. no. 385.