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                                                              A JADE ‘TWIN DRAGON’ BELT HOOK
                                                              EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY,
                                                              C. 3  CENTURY BC
                                                                  RD
                                                              The belt hook has two conjoined curved shafts terminating in two
                                                              dragon heads at the bottom and a single dragon head at the top.
                                                              6¬ in. (16.8 cm.) long, box


                                                              HK$100,000-150,000              US$13,000-19,000
                                                              P R O V E N AN C E
                                                              Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1994

                                                              Compare to a very similar conjoined ‘dragon’ belt hook found in
                                                              an early Western Han tomb belonging to King Chu in Shizishan,
                                                              Xuzhou city, illustrated in Jade Articles from Tombs of Seigniors of
                                                              Han Dynasty in Xuzhou City, Beijing, 2016, p. 28.

                                                              西漢早期   玉雙聯龍首帶鈎

                                                              來源
                                                              藍田山房舊藏,1994年購於台北


                                                              徐州市獅子山西漢早期楚王墓曾出土一件造型及紋飾與本器如出
                                                              一轍的玉雙聯龍首帶鈎,著錄於《龍飛鳳舞:徐州漢代楚王墓出土
                                                              玉器》,北京,2016,頁28。























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