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A JADE-INSET GILT-BRONZE ‘CHILONG’ BELT HOOK, HAN DYNASTY
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2024年10月18日 开拍
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A JADE-INSET GILT-BRONZE ‘CHILONG’ BELT HOOK, HAN DYNASTY

China, 206 BC-220 AD. Finely cast, the arched shaft decorated in relief with two intertwined ferocious chilong, flanked by beast masks at each end, inlaid with three circular white jade plaques neatly carved and incised with comma-scrolls, and terminating in a beast-form hook, the reverse with a circular button.

Provenance: From the private collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, New York. The reverse with an old label inscribed with Alan Hartman’s dating ‘Han’ and further abbreviated notes. Alan Hartman (1930-2023, who took over his parents’ antique business in Manhattan and established the legendary Rare Art Gallery on Madison Avenue, with further locations in Dallas and Palm Beach. His wife Simone (née Horowitz) already served as assistant manager of the New York gallery before the couple married in 1975, and together they built a renowned collection for over half a century and became noted art patrons, enriching the collections of important museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (which opened the Alan and Simone Hartman Galleries in 2013) as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum in New York. Alan Hartman has been described as the greatest antiques dealer of our generation, and was widely recognized as a world authority in Chinese jade, bronzes, and Asian works of art.
Condition: Very good condition, commensurate with age. Wear, signs of weathering and erosion, soil encrustations indicating a prolonged period of burial, small nicks, minor losses, and a small repair to the edge of one jade inset. The bronze has a rich, naturally grown patina with malachite encrustations.

Weight: 162 g
Dimensions: Length 13.9 cm

Jade-embellished belt hooks first seem to appear in the 7th and 6th centuries BC, and similar embellishments can be found on weapons and other personal ornaments from this period. The interest in gold appears to have spread to China from peoples on its western borders, during the late Western Zhou and early Eastern Zhou, but the choice of jade would have appealed specifically to traditional Chinese taste. The form and size of such belt hooks varied, and often they employed fragments of earlier jades for their inlay, increasing the sense of history and individuality. The combination of precious stones and metals on a single piece of such complexity and size would have made it one of the costliest and most luxurious items that could have been afforded only by the most privileged.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related gilt-bronze belt hook cast with chilong and decorated with three circular glass insets, 26 cm long, dated to the Han dynasty, in the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession number LTS1985.1.269.1.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 22 March 2024, lot 1146
Price: USD 25,200 or approx. EUR 22,500 converted at the time of writing
Description: A jade-inset gilt-bronze belt hook, late Warring States -Western Han dynasty, late 3rd to 2nd century BC
Expert remark: Compare the related form and decoration with similar jade insets encompassed by chilong. Note the different style and openwork. Note the similar size (15.6 cm).

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Bonhams London, 16 May 2013, lot 410
Price: GBP 21,250 or approx. EUR 31,500 converted at the time of writing
Description: A rare large jade-inset gilt-bronze belt hook, Eastern Zhou Dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the related form and decoration with similar jade insets. Note the different period, style and openwork. Note the larger size (21.6 cm).

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