A Chinese gilt bronze belt hook, Han dynasty, finely cast...
A Chinese gilt bronze belt hook, Han dynasty, finely cast as a tiger's head with turquoise inset eyes and forehead, with tapering hook terminating in a dragon's head, 11.2cm long Provenance: Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, June 2000 Cf. Compare a similar hook lacking inlays in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gifted by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, acc. no. 2002.201.169, and another in the collection of Wellington Wang, also without inlays, illustrated in Wellington Wang, Belt Ornaments Through the Ages, Taipei, 1996, pl. 99
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A Chinese gilt bronze belt hook, Han dynasty, finely cast as a tiger's head with turquoise inset eyes and forehead, with tapering hook terminating in a dragon's head, 11.2cm long Provenance: Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, June 2000 Cf. Compare a similar hook lacking inlays in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gifted by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, acc. no. 2002.201.169, and another in the collection of Wellington Wang, also without inlays, illustrated in Wellington Wang, Belt Ornaments Through the Ages, Taipei, 1996, pl. 99
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