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A VERY RARE SET OF GOLD AND JADE GARMENT HOOK
PLAQUES
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 4TH CENTURY BC
The set comprises fve rectangular gold plaques and fve jade plaques,
arranged in a line. Each gold plaque is chased in high relief with a pair
of dragons with interlaced bodies. Each jade plaque is delicately carved
with detached comma scrolls.
Largest 1 in. (2.5 cm.) long, metal mount (10)
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953,
no. CK2.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 20.

EXHIBITED
Copenhagen, Dansk Kunstindustrimuseum, Kinas Kunst i Svensk og
Dansk, 1950, cat. no. 163.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 2.
LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 2.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 2.
東周 金及玉蟠龍紋飾牌一組十件

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