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A SILVER AND GOLD-INLAID BRONZE
GARMENT HOOK
LATE WARRING STATES-WESTERN
HAN DYNASTY, 3RD CENTURY BC
The long, slender shaft is divided horizontally
by silver bands into three sections, two
incorporating raised V-shaped bands and
each decorated with fne scale pattern
outlined in silver and flled with tiny gold
dots, and there are silver scrolls on the neck
of the dragon-head that forms the hook. The
button on the underside is inlaid in silver with
a whorl motif.
7º in. (18.5 cm.) long
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida,
by 1991.
A similar use of silver bands and fne gold
dots can be seen on a bronze garment hook
of related shape in the Freer Gallery of Art,
dated late Warring States-Western Han
periods, 3rd century BC, illustrated by T.
Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States
Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C.,
Washington D. C. , 1982, p. 124, no. 73.

戰國晚期/西漢 銅錯金銀帶鈎

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