Period:Warring States period Production date:4thC BC-2ndC BC
Materials:jade
Technique:polished, carved,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Length: 3.80 centimetres
Description:
Belt hook of pale yellow translucent jade with green and brown veining and a small area of metal staining polished to a high gloss.
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Comments:A stylized bottlehorn dragon’s head forms the hook whilst the shaft end is arched, rounded and decorated with inter-locking T-scrolls. See Rawson 1995, p.306, cat.no.22.2. This small and neatly carved jade has a compact arched body, oval in shape and decorated with a panel enclosing linked T-scrolls. A broad neck narrows to the hook, which terminates in a dragon head carved in three dimensions. On the undecorated underside is a small rectangular stud. Like the other pieces in the catalogue decorated with linked scrolls, (57 [2014,AsiaLoan,1.6], 69 [2014,AsiaLoan,1.173]), both the carving and the polish of this piece are of very high quality. This is a miniature version of the category of garment hook with a body relatively broad in relation to the neck and hook. They are found in both metal and jade and in combinations of the two materials. Jade examples of a shortened lute shape, earlier in date than the present piece, have come from Jincun near Luoyang, and are now in the Winthrop Collection, Harvard University. It is not clear whether such hooks are the descendants of broad and rounded hooks in metal or jade, such as a piece found at Qufu, or whether they are variants on shorter bronze hooks that were sometimes inlaid with jade plaques. ………The fine interlocking T-scrolls of the present piece, on the other hand, are characteristic of exceptionally fine jades of the very late Eastern Zhou, as seen in a Chu tomb at Anhui Changfeng Yanggong. Many of the Eastern Zhou pieces survived into and were copied in the Han period. Several examples have come from the tomb of the King of Nan Yue at Canton.
Materials:jade
Technique:polished, carved,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Length: 3.80 centimetres
Description:
Belt hook of pale yellow translucent jade with green and brown veining and a small area of metal staining polished to a high gloss.
IMG
Comments:A stylized bottlehorn dragon’s head forms the hook whilst the shaft end is arched, rounded and decorated with inter-locking T-scrolls. See Rawson 1995, p.306, cat.no.22.2. This small and neatly carved jade has a compact arched body, oval in shape and decorated with a panel enclosing linked T-scrolls. A broad neck narrows to the hook, which terminates in a dragon head carved in three dimensions. On the undecorated underside is a small rectangular stud. Like the other pieces in the catalogue decorated with linked scrolls, (57 [2014,AsiaLoan,1.6], 69 [2014,AsiaLoan,1.173]), both the carving and the polish of this piece are of very high quality. This is a miniature version of the category of garment hook with a body relatively broad in relation to the neck and hook. They are found in both metal and jade and in combinations of the two materials. Jade examples of a shortened lute shape, earlier in date than the present piece, have come from Jincun near Luoyang, and are now in the Winthrop Collection, Harvard University. It is not clear whether such hooks are the descendants of broad and rounded hooks in metal or jade, such as a piece found at Qufu, or whether they are variants on shorter bronze hooks that were sometimes inlaid with jade plaques. ………The fine interlocking T-scrolls of the present piece, on the other hand, are characteristic of exceptionally fine jades of the very late Eastern Zhou, as seen in a Chu tomb at Anhui Changfeng Yanggong. Many of the Eastern Zhou pieces survived into and were copied in the Han period. Several examples have come from the tomb of the King of Nan Yue at Canton.
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