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A RARE GLASS-INLAID GILT-BRONZE BELT HOOK
Warring States/Han Dynasty
With chilong head hook, the sinuous arch of its neck
issuing from the open jaws of a horned mythical beast
with black glass eyes at the base of the convex shaft,
with further crawling chilong in shallow relief among three
turquoise beads, the reverse with circular boss.
19.7cm (7 7/8in) long.

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

戰國/漢 銅鎏金嵌寶帶鉤

Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd, Chinese Jewellery
Accessories and Glass, London, December 1991, no.98.
Robert Kleiner, London, July 2008

來源：倫敦古董商Spink & Son Ltd，收錄於《Chinese
Jewellery Accessories and Glass》，1991年12月，
編號98
倫敦古董商Robert Kleiner，2008年7月

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne
Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2009, no.4.

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，
倫敦，2009年，編號4

Compare with a similar gilt-bronze belt hook, Eastern
Zhou dynasty, but without glass inlay, illustrated by 53
J.Rawson and E.Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos
Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, pp.210-211, no.128.
Another similar inlaid hook, Warring States period, is
illustrated in Art of the Warring States Period, Osaka,
1991, p.104, no.152.

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FOUR BRONZE BELT-HOOKS
Warring States to Han Dynasty
Comprising a long belt hook with geometric patterns
inlaid in gold, terminating with a beast head, 20.5cm (8in)
long; a gilt-bronze belt hook with bold mythical beast
design, 9cm (3 1/2in) long; a bronze cylindrical belt-hook
with traces of silver-wire inlay, 12.7cm (5in) long; and a
small elephant-shaped belt buckle inlaid with gold, 4cm
(1 1/2in) long.
(4).
£1,500 - 2,000
CNY14,000 - 18,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

戰國至漢 銅帶鉤 一組四件 54

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne
Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2001, no.7 (long
buckle)

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，
倫敦，2001年，編號7（最長者）

See a very similar gold-inlaid bronze belt hook, Warring
States period, in the Freer Gallery of Art, illustrated by
T.Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period:
Change and Continuity, 480-222 BC, Washington, 1982,
p.96, no.45.

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