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MASTERPIECES OF EARLY CHINESE GOLD AND SILVER | 金紫銀青 - 中國早期金銀器粹珍

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AN UNUSUAL SILVER GARMENT HOOK
The garment hook is heavily cast with a ferce demon with muscular EXHIBITED
arms and sharp-clawed feet holding a sword in one hand and a shield in New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The
the other, fanked by two smaller winged beasts, all against the scrolling Kempe Collection, 1971, cat. no. 39, an exhibition touring the United
wings and tail feathers of a phoenix, its long, slender neck forming the States and shown also at nine other museums.
shaft that ends in the phoenix-head hook.
LITERATURE
6 in. (15.3 cm.) long; weight 100.5 g; leather box Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, pl. 90.
$6,000-8,000
銀神獸紋鳳首帶鉤
PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 124.

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