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A GILT-BRONZE BELT HOOK
A GILT-BRONZE BELT HOOK
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A GILT-BRONZE BELT HOOK

WARRING STATES PERIOD, 5TH-3RD CENTURY BC

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A GILT-BRONZE BELT HOOK
WARRING STATES PERIOD, 5TH-3RD CENTURY BC
The arched shaft is finely cast with two pairs of intertwined dragons terminating in a dragon-head-form hook.
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) long, Japanese wood box
Provenance
In Japan by 1974.
Kochukyo, Tokyo.
Literature
Kandai no Bijutsu, Osaka, 1974, p. 33, pl. 2-134.
Kaikodo Journal, New York, Spring 2014, no. 41.
Exhibited
Venice, Arte Cinese, 1954 (according to label).
Osaka, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Kandai no Bijutsu, 1974.
New York, Kaikodo, 2014.

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Lot Essay


This belt hook is notable for its boldly vase relief decoration and the generous gilding. A similar gilt-bronze belt hook dated Warring States period, 4th century BC, from Sanjicun in Pingshanxian, is illustrated in Hebei sheng chutu wenwu xuanji, Beijing, 1980, p. 55, no. 220.

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