Emporium Hamburg
Auction 81-83 23-26 Oct 2018
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An extremely fine light green double dragon headed belt hook
With dragons heads on either side of the shaft. Delicately decorated holes on the sides and top of the shaft, in curbing motifs amongst incised cross-cross lines and round knobs. The almost transparent green jade mottled with black in of the Warring States areas. The underside coloured creamy white due to calcination.
Length: 14.5cm
Style of: Eastern Han (25 – 220), age determination uncertain
Chr.Deydier, Les Bronzes Chinoix, pg.90-96. T.Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States period, pg.88-126.
With dragons heads on either side of the shaft. Delicately decorated holes on the sides and top of the shaft, in curbing motifs amongst incised cross-cross lines and round knobs. The almost transparent green jade mottled with black in of the Warring States areas. The underside coloured creamy white due to calcination.
Length: 14.5cm
Style of: Eastern Han (25 – 220), age determination uncertain
Chr.Deydier, Les Bronzes Chinoix, pg.90-96. T.Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States period, pg.88-126.