A GROUP OF THREE JADE BELT HOOKS

WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)

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A GROUP OF THREE JADE BELT HOOKS
WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)
The lot consists of two Warring states period jade belt hooks with the shaft decorated with curls within a frame and one late Warring states period jade dragon belt hook with a slender body.
Largest: 5 1⁄2 in. (14 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Left:
Yangdetang Collection, acquired from E Yuan Tang Chinese Art, Taipei, prior to 1999
Middle and right:
Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1992

Literature

Left: Aurora Art Museum, Jades of Warring States Period, Taipei, 2007, no.215

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Lot Essay

Compare to a similar jade hook of the Warring States period in the Havard Art Museums collection, illustrated in Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, no. 465. Compare also a jade dragon belt hook of the late Warring States period, illustrated in Jades of Warring States Period, Shanghai, 2010, no.215.

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