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Lot 65

Sale 2046 - Asian Works of Art
Mar 21, 2025 10:00AM ET
Live / New York
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$5,000 - 7,000
Price Realized
$7,680
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Two Chinese Silver Inlaid Bronze 'Tiger' Belt Hooks, Warring States Period-Qin Dynasty
戰國-秦 虎首錯金銀帶兩件
Warring States Period-Qin Dynasty (476 BC-206 BC)

Each cast with a tiger-head terminal, the slender shaft of the larger example inlaid in gold and silver with overlapping scrolls filled with 'stippling'; the smaller example inlaid in silver with stylized chilong and scroll design.
Note:
For similar examples, see:
DEYDIER, Christian. Chinese Gold, and Gilt Bronze up to the Tang Dynasty. London, 1985, Pl. 6-7.

LAWTON, Thomas. Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222. B.C. Washington D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institute, 1982, pl. 73.

LOEHR, Max. Relics of Ancient China from the Collection of Dr. Paul Singer. New York: The Asia Society, 1965, pl. 92.

RAWSON, Jessica, and BUNKER, Emma. Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes. Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, pls. 138-140.

WHITE, Julia M., and BUNKER, Emma C. Adornment for Eternity: Status and Rank in Chinese Ornament. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1994, no. 27, 29, 31.

鉤首小巧玲瓏,鉤身細長纖瘦,錯嵌漩渦紋、菱形紋,以點狀模仿龍鱗,是典型的戰國末期至秦朝秦國人喜用的帶鉤。參見瑞士烏爾澤(Pierre Uldry)收藏中的兩件;香港夢蝶軒收藏的三件;弗利爾博物館羅覃博士著《戰國時代的藝術》中圖版73號;大都會博物館藏的一件(編號1985.214.63);現藏咸陽市博物館、咸陽塔爾坡出土的一批戰國秦帶鉤;陝西尤家莊秦墓出土的兩件;以及1982年咸陽窯店出土的一件龍首錯銀銅帶鈎。分別收錄于咸阳市文物考古研究所著《咸阳塔尔坡秦墓》,三秦出版社,1998年,第140-145页;陕西省考古研究院著《西安尤家庄秦墓》,陕西科学技术出版社,2008年,第274-275页;韩钊、吴镇烽合著《陕西新出土文物选粹》,重庆出版社,1998年,第15頁。
Length of larger 6 1/8 in., 15.5 cm.

Property from the RenLu Collection, Los Angeles, California.

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