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TWO INLAY-DECORATED BRONZE BELT HOOKS
WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
One has a fat, rectangular shaft inlaid in gold with scroll designs and with glass ‘eye’
beads, a simplifed drag on-head hook is at one end and a button on the reverse. The
other is gilt-bronze inlaid in turquoise or turquoise glass, and is cast at one end as a
dragon head and along the shaft with two bird heads with long ears and feathers or
horns trailing behind them while in the center a small animal head has been cast in high
relief, and a button is on the reverse.

(2)
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

C.T. Loo & Co., New York, by 1941.
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1982.

LITERATURE

C.T. Loo, Exhibition of Chinese Art, New York, 1941, nos. 168 and 167.

戰國 鑲錯銅帶鈎兩件

74 THE HARRIS COLLECTION:
IMPORTANT EARLY CHINESE ART