A GOLD, SILVER AND TURQUOISE-INLAID BRONZE GARMENT HOOK, DAIGOU

EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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A GOLD, SILVER AND TURQUOISE-INLAID BRONZE GARMENT HOOK, DAIGOU
Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 4th Century B.C.
Of slender tear shape and arched profile, the curved face of the shaft with a chamfered ridge along its length, inlaid all over in silver and gold sheet with a geometric design of conjoined archaistic bands and volutes on a ground of turquoise chips, with similar volutes in silver and gold sheet on the narrow sides, the slender end terminating in a small dragon head, the underside with a simple knop for attachment, iron encrustation
9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) long

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For other similar examples see Yutaka Mino and James Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1983, Catalogue, pp. 128-29, pl. 39; Mostra d'Arte Cinese (Exhibition of Chinese Art), Venezia, 1954, Catalogue, p. 45, pl. 113; Ausstellung Chinesische Kunst, Berlin, 1929, Catalogue, p. 414, pl. 1146 from the Bas. A. Stocklet Collection, Brussels; and Bernhard Karlgren and Jan Wirgin, Chinese Bronzes, The Natanael Wessén Collection, Stockholm, 1969, pp. 182-183, pl. 65. Other examples can be found in the Freer Gallery, and among excavations from Luoyang and Erligang in Henan