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A RARE GLASS AND TURQUOISE INLAID GILT-BRONZE GARMENT HOOK
LATE EASTERN ZHOU/EARLY WESTERN HAN PERIOD
Well cast in the form of a slender dragon, its claws grasping various areas of its sinuous body, with circular translucent glass plaques imitating jade inset into the two wings and the coiled tail, its head with open jaws and turquoise-inlaid eyes raised in a roar at one end, opposite a long-eared dragon-head hook at the other, with some rust encrustation on the glass plaques and some blue-green encrustation on the body--8 3/4 in. (17.2cm.) long
LATE EASTERN ZHOU/EARLY WESTERN HAN PERIOD
Well cast in the form of a slender dragon, its claws grasping various areas of its sinuous body, with circular translucent glass plaques imitating jade inset into the two wings and the coiled tail, its head with open jaws and turquoise-inlaid eyes raised in a roar at one end, opposite a long-eared dragon-head hook at the other, with some rust encrustation on the glass plaques and some blue-green encrustation on the body--8 3/4 in. (17.2cm.) long