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Lot 124
Sale 6418 - Asian Works of Art
Sep 19, 2025
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$5,000 -
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$5,760
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Lot Description
Two Chinese Yellow Gold Belt Hooks, Han Dynasty
春秋-漢 金龍鉤二
春秋-漢 金龍鉤二
Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - 220 A.D.)
The larger example is formed by a gold sheet beaten and chased in the form of a sinuous dragon with the head forming the terminal, the reverse mounted with a large circular knob; the smaller example is in the form of a stylized dragon with a plain shaft, circular knob to the reverse.
Note:
For discussions on gold belt hooks from the Spring and Autumn periods to the Han dynasty, see MA, Zhenkai, Yaodai shang de yishu, daigou kaoshi, Shandong Press 2010, p. 104-107; similar Han dynasty gold and jade examples, see p. 80-81.
For discussions on a similar 'raised bosses' motif on Spring Autumn-Warring States period gold wares, see CAO, Wei and REHREN, Thilo, International Symposium on Qin Period Metallurgy and Its Social and Archeological Context, Science Press 2014, p. 106, fig. 30.
類似蟠屈為飾的帶鉤,參見廣州象崗南越王墓和河南輝縣趙固216號西漢墓出土;以及倫敦古董商Ben Janssens著《Ancient Bronzes: From China, Ordos and the Steppes》,2007年出版,編號5,出自泛亞收藏的東周-戰國帶鈎。
相似的顆粒狀凸起裝飾,參見大都會博物館所藏,出自中國北方約公元前五至三世紀的動物紋牌飾,收錄于蘇芳淑與Emma C. Bunker合著《Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier》,1995年出版,編號87;以及香港夢蝶軒收藏的東周鳥紋金帶鉤,收錄于白珠麗與Emma C. Bunker合著《萬世風華:中國古代飾物》,1994年出版,編號3。
春秋到戰國時期秦人金器設計中常見的細珍珠紋和連珠紋探討,見曹瑋,任天洛主編《秦時期冶金考古國際學術研討會論文集》,2014年科學出版社,106頁,柳楊作《瑞士烏爾澤藏秦式金銀器》,圖30。
關於春秋至兩漢金帶鉤的討論和研究,和本標的類似之漢代金玉帶鉤,見馬振凱著《腰帶上的藝術-帶鉤考識》,2010年山東友誼出版社,104-107頁。
Length of larger 2 3/8 in., 6 cm.
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