WARRING STATES PERIOD, 5TH-4TH CENTURY BC

Compare the similarly inlaid garment hook with similar gold-encased hook illustrated by T. Lawton in the exhibition catalogue, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C., Freer Gallery of Art, 1982, p. 100, no. 50. Another is included in the catalogue, Inlaid bronze and related material from pre-Tang China, Eskenazi, London, June 1991, no. 41.