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2770 (detail 細部)
A JADE ‘DOUBLE DRAGON’ BELT
HOOK

WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)

The curved shaft detailed with fine incisions depicting a scrolling
ruyi motif, is carved on one end with an upturned dragon head,
terminating on the other with a pair of dragon heads. The semi-
translucent stone is of a pale greyish tone with some areas of russet
inclusions and calcification.
4 √ in. (12.5 cm.) long, box

HK$120,000-180,000 US$16,000-23,000

PROVENANCE

The Yangdetang Collection, Taipei, acquired prior to 1995

EXHIBITED

National Palace Museum, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese
Jades, Taipei, 1995, Catalogue, pl. 61

LITERATURE

Teng Shu-p’ing, Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades,
Taipei, 1995, pl. 61

A belt hook of very similar form, also with dragon heads at both
terminals, is in the Qing Court Collection, now at the Palace Museum,
illustrated in Jadeware (I), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 164.

戰國 玉勾連雲紋雙龍帶鈎

來源
養德堂珍藏，台北，入藏於 1995 年以前

展覽
國立故宮博物院，《羣玉別藏》，台北，1995年，圖錄圖版
61號

著錄
鄧淑蘋，《羣玉別藏》，台北，1995年，圖版61號

清宮舊藏一件造型相似的玉帶鈎，同樣首尾雕龍頭，見1995年香港出版
故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集《玉器（上）》，圖版164號。

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