Emporium Hamburg
Auction 81-83 23-26 Oct 2018
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A fine and important gilt-bronze belt hook
Oval shaped, with a fox-like animal cast in the middle surrounded by its curving tale, ending in a short hook, on the underside cast with a round knob and two archaic Chinese pictographs.
Length: 9.5cm, Width: 4.5cm
Style of: Warring States (403 BC – 221 BC), age determination uncertain
Tompson. Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, (similar) pg.110-111. http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/informing-the-eye-of-the-collector-chinese-ceramics-and-works-of-art-from-jt-tai-co-n08722/lot.204.html
Oval shaped, with a fox-like animal cast in the middle surrounded by its curving tale, ending in a short hook, on the underside cast with a round knob and two archaic Chinese pictographs.
Length: 9.5cm, Width: 4.5cm
Style of: Warring States (403 BC – 221 BC), age determination uncertain
Tompson. Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, (similar) pg.110-111. http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/informing-the-eye-of-the-collector-chinese-ceramics-and-works-of-art-from-jt-tai-co-n08722/lot.204.html