Steppe art. Belt hook showing a tiger with its head turned backwards. North or north-east China. 6th century BC Bronze. L. 10 cm. Acquired in the late 1990s from M. Jeuillard, an antique dealer specialising in Asian archaeology and art. For a similar example, see So & Bunker, Traders and raiders on China's Northern Frontier, 1995, p. 169, no. 95.