Arts d'Asie
Arts d'Asie
A superb gold silver and hardstones embellished archaic belthook Han dynasty | 漢 銅錯金銀嵌寶帶鈎
Auction Closed
June 10, 03:15 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A superb gold silver and hardstones embellished archaic belthook
Han dynasty
well cast with an animal head-form hook gently curving to an arched body, finely inlaid with gold, silver and hardstones, the top decorated with a geometric pattern of scrolls and dots
14.6 cm, 5¾ in.
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Grande fibule en bronze embellie d'or, argent et pierres dures, dynastie Han
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漢 銅錯金銀嵌寶帶鈎
14.6 公分， 5¾英寸
Collection of Asher Eskenazi. By repute acquired from Treasures gallery, Hong Kong, ca. 1990.
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Asher Eskenaz珍藏
傳約1990年得自香港唯美古董家具公司
Related gilt-bronze belt hooks with inlaid decoration include one in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., included in the exhibition Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1995, cat. no. 75; another sold at Christie's New York, 19th September 2006, lot 156; a third exhibited in Chinesische Gold und Silber. Die Sammling Pierre Uldry, Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 1994, cat. no. 50.