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A SILVER GARMENT HOOK
LITERATURE
The garment hook is made of two silver sheets, the sheet that forms the Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
front is chased as a crouching animal, the head forming one end and the Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 147.
tail forming the hook, while the sheet that forms the back is plain. Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 146.
7¬ in. (19.4 cm.) long; weight 74.5 g
The design of this silver garment hook is based on gilt-bronze prototypes
$4,000-6,000
such as the very similar example from the Museum of Far Eastern
Antiquities illustrated by Bernhard Karlgren, ‘Chinese Agrafes in Two
PROVENANCE Swedish Collections’, B.M.F.E.A, No. 38, Stockholm, 1966, pl. 62, no. O 11
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, and pp. 135-36.
no. CK147.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. 銀獸形帶鉤
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 32.
EXHIBITED
Paris, Musée Cernuschi, November 1938.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 147.