LATE WARRING STATES - EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, CIRCA 300-141 BC

Details

A LARGE JADE SECTIONED 'DRAGON' BELT HOOK
LATE WARRING STATES - EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, CIRCA 300-141 BC
7 1⁄2 in. (19 cm.) long

Provenance

Chang Wei-Hwa, Taipei, 15 May 1997

Literature

Teng Shu-p'ing, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999, p. 265, no. 181

Exhibited

The National Palace Museum, 1999 Collectors' Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Taipei, 1999

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Lot Essay

The present belt hook comprises five sections, which are connected by an iron rod. Both the head and the end are carved into dragon heads with two pointed horns. A jade belt hook with a very similar shape and design is in the Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji-4-Qin, Han, and Northern and Southern Dynasties, Hebei, 1993, no. 70 (fig. 1).

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