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A jade 'animal' belt hook, Han dynasty | 漢 玉獸首帶鉤

Auction Closed

October 9, 07:30 AM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 HKD

Lot Details

Description

A jade 'animal' belt hook, 

Han dynasty

漢 玉獸首帶鉤


the terminal in a simplified form of an animal head, the arced shaft with angular contours, adorned with two thick horizontal bands with raised ribs, the reverse with a tab for attachment, the stone of a translucent sage-green tone streaked with grey inclusions


8 by 2.3 by 2.2 cm

Galaxie Art & Gift Co., Hong Kong, 15th March 1986.


嘉藝工藝品有限公司，香港，1986年3月15日

Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 22:3.


羅森，《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995年，圖版22:3

Two jade similarly modelled garment hooks with angular contours, attributed to the Warring States period and the Han dynasty respectively, are in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, accession nos S2012.9.1068 and S1987.716.