Lot Essay
This elegant garment hook with its use of Northern motifs is similar to some other published examples including one from the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC, illustrated by J. F. So and E. C. Bunker, Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 1995, p. 71, pl. 15 and pp. 154-5, no. 75, where the author describes it as a "civilized and Sinicized version of more brutal nomadic portrayals". The Sackler garment hook has does in place of the stags on the present garment hook. Another similar garment hook, also with does in place of the stags, was included in the exhibition, Ancient Chinese bronzes and sculpture, Eskenazi, New York, 28 March - 9 April 2005, no. 5. A similiar example from the Stocklet Collection, Brussels, was included in Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst, Berlin, 12 January - 2 April 1929, p. 414, no. 1145. And another included in the exhibition, Icons and Iconoclasts, Anthony Lin at Hazlitt Gooden & Fox, New York, 25 March - 1 April 2006, no. 20, appears to have the stags of the present daigou.