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27 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

A LARGE SILVER AND GOLD-INLAID BRONZE GARMENT HOOK (DAIGOU)
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD

stand (2)
東周 戰國末 銅錯金銀鳳紋帶鉤
Length 7¾ in., 19.8 cm

$ 20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Gisèle Croës, New York, 31st March 2000. 吉賽爾，紐約，2000年3月31日

EXHIBITED 展覽
Light for the After-Life, Gisèle Croës, New York, 2000, pl. 47. 《Light for the After-Life》，吉賽爾，紐約，2000年，圖
版47

ntricately inlaid in gold and silver, the present garment hook (daigou) is remarkable for its unusual
geometric design, with the principal surface divided by four Z-shaped motifs framed by pairs of
Icrested phoenixes.

The intricate and fluid design likely reflects the influence of contemporary painted lacquerware. See, for
example, a painted lacquer ‘ear cup’ (erbei), excavated in 1982 from Tomb 1 at Mashan, Jiangling, Hubei
Province, and now in the Jingzhou Prefecture Museum, Hubei, painted to the interior with a symmetrical
arrangement of two large birds, the body of each composed of four volutes that curve alternately in
opposite directions, included in the exhibition The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology. Celebrated
Discoveries from the People’s Republic of China, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1999, cat. no. 111.

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