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A TURQUOISE, GOLD, AND SILVER INLAID BRONZE GARMENT HOOK, WARRING STATES PERIOD
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2024年10月18日 开拍
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A TURQUOISE, GOLD, AND SILVER INLAID BRONZE GARMENT HOOK, WARRING STATES PERIOD

China. 475-221 BC. The belt hook terminating in a dragon head finial and inlaid on the arched shaft in gold and silver sheet with an intricate geometric design filled in with turquoise inlays, the underside set with a circular button.

Provenance: Rare Art, New York, United States. Mary McFadden, acquired from the above. The back with remnants of an old label from the ‘A & S Hartman Collection’ inscribed with Alan Hartman’s dating for the present lot, ‘[Warring] States’. Mary McFadden (born 1938) is an American art collector, editor, fashion designer, and writer, who was born in New York City. During the 1960s she worked as the director of public relations for Dior New York. After marrying Philip Harari, a merchant for De Beers diamonds, they relocated to South Africa, where she worked as an editor for the South African Vogue from 1968 to 1970. In 1976 she established her own clothing company Mary McFadden Inc. and in 2012 she published a book titled ‘Mary McFadden: A Lifetime of Design, Collecting, and Adventure’.
Condition: Fine condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, signs of weathering and erosion, losses to inlays, some turquoise inlays replaced, old repairs, minor touchups. The bronze with a rich, naturally grown patina with malachite and cuprite encrustations.

Weight: 386.8 g
Dimensions: Length 21.1 cm

Literature comparison:
Compare a related gold and turquoise inlaid garment hook, 19 cm long, dated 3rd-2nd century BC, in the British Museum, registration number 1932,1215.36. Compare a related gold, silver; and turquoise-inlaid garment hook, 17.8 cm long, dated ca. late 4th-early 3rd century BC, in the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession number S1987.413.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 25 September 2020, lot 1529
Price: USD 100,000 or approx. EUR 111,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A turquoise and gold-inlaid bronze belt hook, Warring States period, 4th-3rd century BC
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form, decoration, and size (19.2 cm). Note the lack of silver inlay.

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