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TWO GILT-BRONZE GARMENT HOOKS
WARRING STATES-HAN DYNASTY, 5TH-3RD CENTURY BC
The smaller is cast at one end with a monkey, its body centered by a turquoise paste
inlay carved with a bird, and the shaft has a recess for further inlay. The other is cast
at one end with a dragon crawling over the top of an angled bar that terminates in an
angular scroll, while the long, slender shaft terminates in a dragon-head hook. Both
have a circular button on the reverse.
2√ and 3√ in. (7.2 and 9.9 cm.) long
(2)
$2,000-3,000
PROVENANCE
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1995.
Two garment hooks of the same type as the second example are illustrated by O.
Karlbeck in B.M.F.E.A., no. 27, Stockholm, 1955, pl. 26 (2), and another is illustrated
in Chugoku Sengoku jidai no bijutsu (The Art of the Warring States Period), Osaka
Municipal Museum of Fine Art, 1991, p. 105, no. 155.
戰國/漢 鎏金銅帶鈎兩件
58 THE HARRIS COLLECTION:
IMPORTANT EARLY CHINESE ART
