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WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
Details
TWO INLAY-DECORATED BRONZE BELT HOOKS
WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
One has a flat, rectangular shaft inlaid in gold with scroll designs and with glass ‘eye’ beads, a simplified dragon-head hook is at one end and a button on the reverse. The other is gilt-bronze inlaid in turquoise or turquoise glass, and is cast at one end as a dragon head and along the shaft with two bird heads with long ears and feathers or horns trailing behind them while in the center a small animal head has been cast in high relief, and a button is on the reverse.
6 and 7 ¼ in. (15.4 and 18.5 cm.) long
WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
One has a flat, rectangular shaft inlaid in gold with scroll designs and with glass ‘eye’ beads, a simplified dragon-head hook is at one end and a button on the reverse. The other is gilt-bronze inlaid in turquoise or turquoise glass, and is cast at one end as a dragon head and along the shaft with two bird heads with long ears and feathers or horns trailing behind them while in the center a small animal head has been cast in high relief, and a button is on the reverse.
6 and 7 ¼ in. (15.4 and 18.5 cm.) long
Provenance
C.T. Loo & Co., New York, by 1941.
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1982.
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1982.
Literature
C.T. Loo, Exhibition of Chinese Art, New York, 1941, nos. 168 and 167.