EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, C. 3RD CENTURY BC

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A JADE ‘TWIN DRAGON’ BELT HOOK
EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, C. 3^RD CENTURY BC
The belt hook has two conjoined curved shafts terminating in two dragon heads at the bottom and a single dragon head at the top.
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) long, box

Provenance

Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1994

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Lot Essay

Compare to a very similar conjoined ‘dragon’ belt hook unearthed from an early Western Han tomb belonging to King Chu in Shizishan, Xuzhou city, illustrated in Jade Articles from Tombs of Seigniors of Han Dynasty in Xuzhou City, Beijing, 2016, p. 28 (fig. 1).

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