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120. An Archaic Jade Garment Hook
Han Dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220)
carved as a dragon with horned head turned back as the hook, and with a wide feather scroll tail.

Length 1 ⁄8 inches (4.2 cm)
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121. T wo Small Archaic Jade Garment Hooks
Early Western Han Dynasty, 3rd–2nd Century B.C.

each with rounded body of teardrop shape tapering to a bird head hook, the flat underside with a
stud for attachment, the gray-green jade altered to cloudy white from long burial.
Lengths ⁄8 inch (2.2 cm) and 2 inches (5 cm)
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Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1994 catalogue no. 41

A similar hook in the National Museum of China is illustrated in Zhongguo guojia bowuguan guancang wenwu yanjiu congshu:
yuqi juan (Studies of the Collection of the National Museum of China: Jade), Shanghai, 2007, p. 194, no. 144.

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122. An Archaic White Jade Seal
Han Dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220)
surmounted by a crouching beast with blunt snout and two long horns, the underside carved in
intaglio with a fallen deer, remains of cinnabar red.
Length ⁄8 inch (2.2 cm)
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Compare the jade seal illustrated by Luo (ed.), Gugong bowuyuan cang gu xiyin xuan (Selected Ancient
Seals in the Collection of the Palace Museum), Beijing, 1982, p. 89, no. 495.

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123. An Archaic Brown Jade Tortoise Seal
Han Dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220)
with smooth rounded ‘shell’, the flat base with four characters, now illegible.
1 2 1 2 ¾ inches (2.5 2 2.5 2 1.9 cm)

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124. An Archaic Jade Miniature Dragon Finial
Eastern Zhou Dynasty, circa 5th–4th Century B.C.
with body coiled, the raised head with blunt snout and curled horn, shown biting on a wing.

Height 11 ⁄16 inch (1.7 cm)

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