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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.52.57
Title
Belt Hook with Figural Decoration, possibly the Queen Mother of the West (Xiwangmu)
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
hook
Date
2nd century BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Han dynasty, Western Han period, 206 BCE-9 CE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204658

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gold with blue and white glass inlay and with fragment of wooden support on the reverse
Technique
Inlaid
Dimensions
21.1 x 5.1 x 3.3 cm (8 5/16 x 2 x 1 5/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.52.57
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 051, pp. 50-51
  • Takayasu Higuchi, ed., Chugoku bijutsu, dai 4-kan (Chinese Art in Western Collections vol. 4: Bronze and Jade), Kodansha (Tokyo, Japan, 1973), pl. 104 b

Verification Level

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