WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)

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.