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A SILVER GARMENT HOOK
LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY,
4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
The fnely shaped hook is cast with a stylized, horned animal head from
which issues the slender shaft that terminates in a stylized bird’s head.
2¡ in. (6.2 cm.) long; weight 22.4 g
$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953,
no. CK80.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 28.

EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 80.
LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 80.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 83.
This silver garment hook is similar to a gilt-bronze example in the
British Museum illustrated by William Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes,
London, 1962, pl. 86a, where it is dated 4th-3rd century BC.
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戰國晚朝/西漢 銀獸首形帶鉤

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A SILVER ‘ANIMAL-HEAD’ GARMENT HOOK
LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY,
4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
The small silver garment hook is cast in the form of a horned animal
head, the shaft issuing from the animal’s nose and terminating in a
dragon head.
1º in. (3.1 cm) long; weight 11 g
$1,000-1,500

PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953,
no. CK81.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 29.
EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 81.
LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 81.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
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and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 84.
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