AN EXCEPTIONALLY WELL-PRESERVED GLASS- AND SILVER-INLAID BRONZE GARMENT HOOK, DAIGOU
拍卖行: Galerie Zacke
拍品描述
AN EXCEPTIONALLY WELL-PRESERVED GLASS- AND SILVER-INLAID BRONZE GARMENT HOOK, DAIGOU China. Warring States to Western Han Dynasty, 4th-1st century BC. The slender rounded shaft is intricately inlaid with silver sheet, wire, and stippling, forming overlapping scrolls evocative of intertwined beasts punctuated with spiral designs, and a geometric pattern, framed by horizontal lines, all below the finely modeled and similarly decorated hook in the form of a dragon’s head with neatly inlaid black glass eyes, the underside with a circular button. Dimensions: Height 16 cm Literature comparison: Compare closely related silver-inlaid bronze belt hooks in the National Museum of History, Taipei, one 14.7 cm long, and the other dated to the Warring States period, 12.9 cm long, object number 86-00173. Compare a closely related gold and silver-inlaid bronze garment hook, dated late Warring States-Western Han, 3rd century BC ,17.4 cm long, illustrated by Thomas Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States period, Change and Continuity, 480-222 BC, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1982, p. 124, no. 73. Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Christie’s New York, 16 March 2017, lot 873 Price: USD 20,000 or approx. EUR 25,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Expert remark: Compare the closely related curved cylindrical form, decoration, and motifs with similar spirals, dots, and bars. Note the gold inlay and the related size (18.5 cm). Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Christie’s New York, 18 March 2021, lot 607 Price: USD 60,000 or approx. EUR 62,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Expert remark: Compare the related slender curved form, decoration, and motifs with similar spirals and dots, manner of casting, and related inlaid decoration. Note the gold inlay and smaller size (11.5 cm).
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