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See a related turquoise-inlaid gilt bronze
belt hook, Eastern Zhou dynasty, J.Rawson
and E.Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos
Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, no.132.

448
TWO RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE
‘ZOOMORPHIC’ BELT HOOKS
The first Warring States/Han Dynasty; the
second Ordos, 4th/3rd century BC
The first unusually cast and pierced as a
three-clawed chilong dragon biting a coil,
possibly a small snake, issuing from the
stomach of a horned beast forming the hook,
the reverse with the characters Xin Lun, fitted
box, 9.5cm (3 3/4in) long; the second Ordos,
cast as a striding tiger with striped hide
looking backwards to its coiled tail,
10cm (4in) long. (3).
£1,500 - 2,000
CNY14,000 - 18,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

戰國/漢 銅螭龍形帶鉤 及公元前四至三世紀
虎形帶鉤 各一
Published, Illustrated and Exhibited:
Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition,
London, 2008, no.3 (chilong). 448

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展
覽》，倫敦，2008年，編號3（螭龍形帶鉤）

See a related example illustrated by J.So and
E.Bunker, Traders and Raiders on China’s
Northern Frontier, Washington, 1995, no.95.

449
TWO BRONZE BELT HOOKS
Warring States Period
One still partially gilt, cast with a hunched
animal crouched above the stud on the
reverse and applied with a shallow bead
of iridescent yellow glass, a slender animal
biting it and with tail coiling down the shaft to
the bird-head terminal, 8.5cm (3 1/4in) long;
and another larger, cast with a central cicada
flanked on both sides by two small striding
chilong, 12.5cm (5in) long. (2).
£1,200 - 1,500
CNY11,000 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

戰國 銅帶鉤 一組兩件
Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: 447
Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition,
London, 2002, no.4 (the larger belt hook).

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展
覽》，倫敦，2002年，編號4（較大者）

See a related bronze belt hook, Warring states
period, illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in
the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, no.229.

449

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