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22. Bronze and gold garment-hook (daigou)
Bronze and gold garment-hook (daigou)
Late Warring States period, 3rd century BC.
Length: 22 cm
Elegantly curved garment-hook, cast in three tapering facets which merge
at the shaft to terminate in an animal’s head hook. The garment-hook’s surface is
richly inlaid in gold with an elaborate design of two intertwined stylized dragons.
The reverse is set with a stud for attachment.
Provenance:
- Frank Arts Collection, Belgium.
Similar example:
- a similar daigou is illustrated by Lawton Thomas, Chinese Art of the Warring
States Period, Change and Continuity, Washington 1982, Freer Gallery of Art,
n° 45-46 p. 96-97.
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