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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR,
BY DESCENT FROM THE REACH FAMILY COLLECTION

(LOTS 1395-1396)

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

1395
A GOLD AND TURQUOISE-INLAID BRONZE GARMENT HOOK

LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC

The slender, arched garment hook is fnely inlaid in gold wire with an intricate pattern
connecting four forets alternating with three barbed motifs, all flled in with turquoise chips.
The reverse is covered in silver sheet, as the button may have been. The end with the animal-
head hook is encased in gold sheet inlaid with a narrow turquoise ‘bead’ border and decorated
in relief on the sides with the scrolling bodies of mythical beasts.
8 in. (20.4 cm.) long, ftted box
$25,000-35,000

PROVENANCE

Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1994.
By descent from the Reach Family Collection.

Compare the gold and turquoise-inlaid bronze garment hook with similarly relief-decorated, gold-
encased hook end illustrated by T. Lawton in the exhibition catalogue, Chinese Art of the Warring States
Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C., Freer Gallery of Art, 1982, p. 100, no. 50. Two others of this
type, both dated Warring States period, 3rd century BC, are illustrated by Julia M. White and Emma C.
Bunker, Adornment for Eternity: Status and Rank in Chinese Ornament, Denver Art Museum, 1994, pp.
104-7, nos. 25 and 26. See, also, the similar garment hook sold at Christie’s New York, 15 September
2011, lot 1119.
戰國晚期 青銅錯金嵌綠松石帶勾

T. Lawton著，弗利爾藝術館1982年出版《Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity,
480-222 B.C.》載有一件相似的勾頭包金的錯金嵌綠松石帶勾，見該書100頁，編號50。Julia M. White and
Emma C. Bunker著，1994年丹佛藝術館出版的《Adornment for Eternity: Status and Rank in Chinese
Ornament》一書中載有另兩件近似例，年代皆為戰國時期公元前3世紀，見該書104至7頁，編號25及26。另可參
照一件近似的帶勾，售於紐約佳士得，2011年9月15日，拍品編號1119。

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