A black green jade belt hook with a bird head
The bird-head hook finished with delicately carved hooked beak and horn, with fine incised decorations on the curving shaft of arcs and diamond shapes.
Style of: Late Zhou, Warring States Style of (403 BC – 221 BC), age determination uncertain
Length: 16cm
Orientations, December 1989, pg.34, Oriental Art XXVII, no 4, pg.385, fig.3 (similar bronze belt hooks). GW.Weber, The ornaments of the late Chou Bronzes 1973, pg.64, 65 and 349. T.Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring State period, 1982, pg.30 and 31.