EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

Details

A silver and gold-inlaid bronze garment hook, Daigou
Eastern Zhou Dynasty
The rounded arched shaft slightly tapering towards the dragon's head hook, decorated with spiralled scrolls flanked by dotted borders, between three triple-line horizontal borders, all in gold and silver sheet and wire inlay reserved against the rich coppery colour of the bronze, the reverse with a knop for attachment
13.7 cm. long

Provenance

Eskenazi, London, 1991

Exhibited

Eskenazi, London, Inlaid bronze and related material from pre-Tang China, 11 June-5 July 1991, p. 110, fig. 46

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Lot Essay

Similar examples are illustrated in T. Lawson, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity 480-222 BC, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1982, no. 73; and Art of the Silk Road, 50th Anniversary, Nara, 1980

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