Lot Essay
For two similar short and broad garment hooks see Max Loehr, Relics of Ancient China, From the Collection of Dr. Paul Singer, Asia Society, New York, 1965, Catalogue, p. 106, nos. 90-91. For another, see Jessica Rawson and Emma Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, Catalogue, pp. 216-217, pls. 134-135. Similar examples have been excavated from tombs in Jincun, Luoyang and at Yangzishan, Chengdu in Sichuan province. See Kaogu xuebao, 1954:8, pp. 127-162, fig. 21:8 and 1956:4, pp. 1-20, fig. 18. Other examples from Sichuan are illustrated in Wenwu ziliao congkan, 1983:7, pp. 1-12, fig. 13