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A LARGE JADE INLAID GILT BRONZE GARMENT HOOK
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY (770-256 BC)
The curving shaft inlaid with four rectangular greenish jade plaques framed on either side by scrolling dragons and at each end with animal heads each inlaid with a circular jade boss to the forehead, the hook formed by a dragon head projecting from the mouth of one of the animal masks
6¾ in. (7.2 cm.) long
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY (770-256 BC)
The curving shaft inlaid with four rectangular greenish jade plaques framed on either side by scrolling dragons and at each end with animal heads each inlaid with a circular jade boss to the forehead, the hook formed by a dragon head projecting from the mouth of one of the animal masks
6¾ in. (7.2 cm.) long
Literature
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 22
Exhibited
Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003-December 2004