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248 A RARE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE BELT HOOK
WARRING STATES PERIOD - HAN DYNASTY
戰國至漢 銅錯銀幾何紋帶鉤

well cast with an animal head-form hook gently curving to an arched body, finely inlaid to the top with a geometric pattern of
scrolls and dots, the underside with a circular button decorated with a whirl motif
Length 3⅛ in., 8 cm

$ 10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Compare several larger silver-inlaid bronze belt hooks of a similar form, including two decorated with different
geometric patterns, from the late Warring States period to early Han dynasty, formerly in the Sakamoto Collection,
published in Hayashi Minao and Higuchi Takayasu, Fugendō Sakamoto Gorō Chūgoku seidōki seishō [Ancient
Chinese Bronzes in the Sakamoto Collection], Tokyo, 2002, pl. 309; one in the collection of Crown Prince of Sweden
Gustaf Adolf, published in Nils Palmgren, Selected Chinese Antiquities from the Collection of Gustaf Adolf, Stockholm,
1948, pl. 29, fig. 6, together with a smaller example, inlaid to the button with a character reading ji (auspicious), pl. 28,
fig. 4; one of a slightly smaller size, exhibited in Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong
Kong, 1990, cat. no. 134; and a larger silver belt hook cast with a geometric design of swirls, formerly in the collection
of Carl Kempe, illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, cat.
no. 78, and later sold in our London rooms, 14th May 2008, lot 24.

參考數件銅錯銀帶鉤作例，其中兩例出自不言堂收藏， 圖4；再比一例，尺寸較小，曾展於《青銅聚英：中國古
斷代戰國晚期至漢代早期，載於樋口隆康及林巳奈夫， 代與鄂爾多斯青銅器》，香港藝術館，香港，1990年，
《不言堂坂本五郎：中国青銅器清賞》，東京，2002 編號134；尚有一銀例，尺寸較大，幾何漩渦紋飾，曾屬
年，圖版309；另一例現存於瑞典王儲古斯塔夫•阿道 Carl Kempe 收藏，圖載於Bo Gyllensvärd，《Chinese
夫收藏，載於 Nils Palmgren，《Selected Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection》，斯德哥
Antiquities from the collection of Gustaf Adolf Crown 爾摩，1953年，編號78，後售於倫敦蘇富比2008年5月
Prince of Sweden》，斯德哥爾摩，1948年，圖版 29 14日，編號24。
，圖6，同書並載另一例，鉤鈕銘「吉」字，圖版28，

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