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THREE BRONZE GARMENT HOOKS A BRONZE BELT HOOK AND TWO A SILVER AND GILT INLAID BRONZE
Warring States BRONZE GARMENT HOOKS BELTHOOK AND TWO BRONZE
Comprising: a hook with twin serpentine, Warring States to Han Dynasty GARMENT HOOKS
coiled dragons below two smaller, with Comprising: A slender curved belthook, Warring States
dragon head terminal; an elephantine, crisply cast to one end with a rounded taotie The bronze belthook inlaid in silver and
mythical beast head hook, with further dragon mask, the shaft curving around to the animal gold with confronting serpentine beasts to
head terminal; and another modelled as head finial; a garment hook cast with stylised the shield form terminal, the lobed shaft
a recumbent deer, the head turned to the ‘pig dragons’ with curved tails, the shaft terminating with a dragon head, set within a
reverse, the elongated hook terminating with terminating in an equine or dragon head; perspex case; a small bronze garment hook
a bird’s head. and a small garment hook cast as a seated cast as a ram and bird’s head with curved
The largest 5.5cm (2.1/8in) long. (3). gibbon, the upstretched left arm forming the neck; and a further garment hook cast with
hook. twin confronting serpentine dragons, the
£1,500 - 2,000 14cm (5.1/2in), 5.2cm (2in) and 4.5cm slender curved shaft with a further dragon
CNY14,000 - 18,000 (1.3/4in) long. (3). head finial.
HK$16,000 - 22,000 9.5cm (3.3/4in); 3.2cm (1.1/4in) and 6.3cm
£1,000 - 1,500 (2.1/2in) long. (3).
Provenance CNY9,200 - 14,000
Twin serpentine chilong garment hook: HK$11,000 - 16,000 £1,500 - 2,000
Sotheby’s London, 3 April 1979, Lot 1. CNY14,000 - 18,000
Purchased Bluett & Sons Ltd., 3 April 1979 Provenance HK$16,000 - 22,000
For a related group, see BMFEA, no. 27, Taotie mask belthook: Reputedly
1955, plate 22. Eumorfopoulos Collection. Provenance
Sotheby’s London, 29 March 1977, Lot 4. Inlaid belthook: Collection of D. David-Weill.
Elephantine beast mask garment hook: Purchased Bluett & Sons Ltd. Sotheby’s London, 29 February, 1972, lot
Sotheby’s London, 3 April 1979, Lot 2. 158.
Purchased Bluett & Sons Ltd., 3 April 1979. Twin archaic dragon garment hook: Sotheby’s
For a related group, see BMFEA, no. 38, London, 11 December 1979, Lot 1 Ram terminal garment hook: Collection
1966, plates 82-83. Purchased Bluett & Sons Ltd. of Professor Osvald Siren. Inv. S.17 to
underside.
Recumbent deer belthook: Sotheby’s London, Monkey garment hook: Purchased Bluett & Sotheby’s London, 11 July 1972, Lot 208.
3 April 1979, Lot 9. Sons Ltd., 28 July 1980.
Purchased Bluett & Sons Ltd., 3 April 1979. Twin serpentine garment hook: Collection of
For a related group, see BMFEA, no. 38, Literature Professor Osvald Siren.
1966, plate 70. Monkey garment hook: Kandai no Bijutsu, Sotheby’s London, 11 July 1972, Lot 219.
Osaka, 1974, pl. 228.
Literature
Ram terminal garment hook: BMFEA, No. 38,
pl.71, no. P39W.
Twin serpentine garment hook: BMFEA, No.
38, pl.81, no. S54W.
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