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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A RARE LARGE JADE AND GLASS-INLAID GILT-BRONZE 私人珍藏
BELT HOOK 漢 銅鎏金嵌玉及玻璃蒼龍教子帶鉤
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
來源:
The belt hook is finely cast at one end with an owl-headed beast, grasping
in its claws the bodies of two does in its claws, which hold in place a jade bi Galaxie Art (王炳權), 香港, 1986年10月25日
centered by blue glass inlay, all above a large bovine mask with twisted horns,
from which issues an animal-head hook.
5æ in. (14.5 cm.) high, cloth box
$80,000-120,000
PROVENANCE:
Galaxie Art (B. K. Wong), Hong Kong, 25 October 1986.

This striking belt hook, with its use of Northern motifs, is similar to published
examples including one from the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington
DC, illustrated by J. F. So and E. C. Bunker, Traders and Raiders on China's
Northern Frontier, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington DC, 1995, p. 71, pl. 15 and pp. 154-5, no. 75, and one included in
the exhibition, Ancient Chinese bronzes and sculpture, Eskenazi, New York, 28
March - 9 April 2005, no. 5. See, also, the similar example from the Stocklet
Collection, Brussels, included in the exhibition catalogue, Ausstellung
Chinesischer Kunst, Berlin, 12 January - 2 April 1929, p. 414, no. 1145.

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