A PARCEL-GILT SILVER GARMENT-HOOK WARRING STATES PERIOD

the wide, gently curved body ending in a simple hook and cast with an openwork design of a pair of confronting birds surrounded by interlocking scrolls, surmounted by the head of a stylised beast

Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1954-55, cat. no. 82.

Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The Kempe Collection, Asia House Gallery, New York, 1971, cat. no. 35, an exhibition touring the United States and shown also at nine other museums.

Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 82.

Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 85.

The hook is in good overall condition with the exception of a fracture across the middle right side edge, rubbing and loss to the gilt decoration, and light pitting and scratching to the surface. It is probable that the hook has been coated in a wax or varnish to resist tarnish to the silver and gilt decoration.
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