Early Western Han Dynasty, 3rd-2nd Century B.C.
each with rounded body of teardrop shape tapering to a bird head hook, the flat underside with a stud for attachment, the gray-green jade altered to cloudy white from long burial.
Lengths 7⁄8 inch (2.2 cm) and 2 inches (5 cm)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1994 catalogue no. 41
A similar hook in the National Museum of China is illustrated in Zhongguo guojia bowuguan guancang wenwu yanjiu congshu: yuqi juan (Studies of the Collection of the National Museum of China: Jade), Shanghai, 2007, p. 194, no. 144.
西漢早期 小玉帶鉤二件 長2.2、5厘米
來源 藍理捷1994特展圖錄第41號
Early Western Han Dynasty, 3rd-2nd Century B.C.
Lengths 7⁄8 inch (2.2 cm) and 2 inches (5 cm)