Garment hook inlaid with turquoise

Object Details

• Description

  A garment-hook: bronze sheathed with silver, gilded and ornamented with inlaid turquoise and other stones; on the back, lightly engraved designs showing the silver.

• Provenance

  From 1940 to 1941

  C. T. Loo & Company, New York from October 1940 [1]

  From 1941

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo & Company on March 20, 1941 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See C. T. Loo's stockcard no. 86941: "One bronze buckle in the form of an animal with a tiger holding on the back a running dragons, inlayed with turquoise, Warring States," C. T. Loo & Frank Caro Archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy in file.

  The object was brought to the Freer Gallery for examination on November 13, 1940.

  [2] See C. T. Loo's invoice, dated March 20, 1941, copy in object file.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Chinese Art (February 18, 1983 to April 1, 1987)

  Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Community, 480-222 B.C. (September 30, 1982 to February 17, 1983)

  Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

  Chinese Bronze, Jade, Metalwork (March 1, 1957 to January 1, 1963)

  Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 14 and 15 (February 25, 1956 to March 1, 1957)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork and Painting, East Corridor (February 15, 1955 to August 26, 1955)

  Special Mirror Exhibition (November 16, 1954 to February 25, 1955)

  Untitled Exhibition, Ancient Chinese Art, 1946 (May 7, 1946 to February 25, 1956)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1944 (November 15, 1944 to May 6, 1946)

  Untitled Exhibition, Ancient Chinese Art, 1943 (March 22, 1943 to November 17, 1944)

• Previous custodian or owner

  C.T. Loo & Company (1914-1948)

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Jewelry and Ornament

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• Date

  BCE 0s

• Name

  C.T. Loo & Company

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Gilding, Bronze, Art, Inlay (process), Sculpture, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE), Chinese Art, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE - 9 CE), Metal-work

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Ornaments, Jewelry