An embellished gold- and silver-inlaid bronze 'tiger' garment hook,
東周 銅嵌寶錯金銀獸首帶鉤
An elaborate Eastern Zhou bronze garment hook featuring a tiger head with inlaid gold and silver details, black glass eyes, turquoise accents, and a dragon-head hook terminus. The piece showcases sophisticated metalworking techniques with intricate decorative inlays across both functional surfaces.
- Medium
- the hook modelled with an elaborate tiger head on one end, accentuated by a pair of alert eyes with black glass or frit framed by silver-inlaid S-shaped eyebrows, above a turquoise-studded muzzle, detailed with silvery whiskers, the carefully-sculpted face further enhanced by gold inlays, detailed with intricate scrollwork and geometric designs, the forehead surmounted by an ultramarine whorl-decorated glass bead flanked by a pair of turquoise bosses suggesting the ears, the curved slender shaft tapering to a small dragon-head hook at the other end, similarly patterned with delicate gold and silver inlays, the reverse left plain save for a silver-inlaid swirl-adorned button
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby's
🔨 Auction Lot
HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung: Part 1 | Evening
October 8, 2022
Estimate: $800,000 – $1,200,000
Lot 4
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