Lot 186: THREE BRONZE GOLD AND SILVER INLAID GARMENT ORNAMENTS Warring States period

THREE BRONZE GOLD AND SILVER INLAID GARMENT ORNAMENTS

Warring States period

The belt hook finely inlaid with mirror geometric patterns on the body, the serpent's head with raised horns behind gold-inlaid eyes, the underside finely inlaid with two phoenixes and cast with a mushroom knob for attachment; the small belt hook similarly decorated, the serpent head with horns and long neck, the underside cast with a mushroom-shaped knob inlaid with scrolls and circles, accompanied by a ring inlaid with closely related design. (3)


Belt hook: 3 7/8in (9.8cm) long;
Smaller belt hook: 2 1/2in (6.3cm) long;
Ring: 1 3/4in (4.5cm) diam

戰國 鑲金銀銅帶飾三件



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Spink & Son Ltd., London, 21 February 1990 (small belt hook and ring)

Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, no. 3873 (belt hook) and 2907 (small belt hook and ring)

Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015-present




來源：

倫敦 Spink & Son Ltd. 古董行，1990 年 2 月 21 日 (小帶鉤及環)

佛羅倫斯 (1920-2018) 及赫伯特·歐雲 (1917-2016) 伉儷（Florence and Herbert Irving）舊藏，藏品編號 3873 (帶鉤)、2907 (小帶鉤及環)

歐雲伉儷贈，2015 年

大都會藝術博物館，2015 年迄今



Compare with a related garment-hook, inlaid with gold and silver, Eastern Zhou, 4th-3rd century BC, illustrated by J.Rawson and E.Bunker,
Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, p.216, no.135.

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