拍品 1119
1119
A GOLD, SILVER AND TURQUOISE-INLAID BRONZE GARMENT HOOK
PROPERTY FROM A NORTH AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A GOLD, SILVER AND TURQUOISE-INLAID BRONZE GARMENT HOOK

WARRING STATES PERIOD, 5TH-4TH CENTURY BC

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A GOLD, SILVER AND TURQUOISE-INLAID BRONZE GARMENT HOOK
WARRING STATES PERIOD, 5TH-4TH CENTURY BC
Finely inlaid in gold and silver wire with an intricate overlapping geometric design framing and connecting three florets on top alternating with four demi-florets on the sides, all filled in with turquoise inlay, the dragon-head hook encased in gold sheet with an openwork design of chilong on the sides, the underside possibly covered in silver sheet and set with a circular button
8 1/8 in. (20.5 cm.) long, plexi stand
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Acquired in Hong Kong, 19 June 2000.

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Compare the similarly inlaid garment hook with similar gold-encased hook illustrated by T. Lawton in the exhibition catalogue, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C., Freer Gallery of Art, 1982, p. 100, no. 50. Another is included in the catalogue, Inlaid bronze and related material from pre-Tang China, Eskenazi, London, June 1991, no. 41.