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AN EXTREMELY RARE AND
IMPORTANT GLASS AND JADE
INSET GILT-BRONZE ‘DRAGON’
BELT HOOK
LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD,
CIRCA 300-221 BC
The arched belt hook is cast in high relief at one end a taotie adorns
a jade bi-disc, which is further embellished with a glass bead, and
the other with a cow-head supporting the jade bi with the horns,
terminates in a dragon-head form hook. The surface of the jade
bi is decorated with small, raised spirals. A circular stud is on the
reverse.
8¬ in. (22 cm.) long, box
HK$600,000-800,000 US$78,000-100,000

PROVENANCE
Dexinshuwu Collection, acquired in Hong Kong in 1990
Compare to a late Easter Zhou to early Western Han period belt hook
combined bronze, jade and glass, illustrated in Eskenazi, Inlaid Bronze
and Related Material form Pre-Tang China, June 1991, pl.no. 48 (fig. 1).

戰國晚期 鎏金鑲嵌玉璧琉璃珠龍首牛頭銅帶鈎

來源 fig. 1
德馨書屋舊藏，1990 年購於香港 圖一
此件帶鈎為複合式工藝，技術繁複，難度極高。器身鎏金，均勻飽滿，
鈎首所雕之龍首，從鈎頸所雕之牛首嘴中伸出，極具巧思；鈎體寬大，
鈎面至鈎尾雕各式獸面紋，鈎面上的大小兩圓形開光，各鑲嵌一塊穀紋
璧，大璧中央鑲嵌七顆藍色琉璃珠，小璧中間鑲有一顆，全器宏偉大度，
氣勢逼人，頗具王者氣象。
可比較一同以複合式工藝打造的鎏金銀嵌玉璧料珠龍紋帶鉤，見
Eskenazi，《Inlaid Bronze and Related Material form Pre-Tang China》，
1991 年 6 月，圖版 48 號（圖一）。

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