Garment hook

Object Details

• Provenance

  From at least 1952 to 1953

  C. T. Loo & Company, New York, from at least May 8, 1952 [1]

  From 1953

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo & Company on July 13, 1953 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See C. T. Loo's List of objects, dated May 8, 1952, with an annotation that the objects were brought to the Freer Gallery on May 8, 1952, copy in object file.

  See also Loo's stockcard no. LI-5/170: "One open-work belt-hook, inlaid with turquoise," C. T. Loo & Frank Caro Archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy in object file. According to information on the stockcard, the object was acquired by Loo in China.

  [2] See C. T. Loo's invoice, dated July 10, 1953, copy in object file.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Personal Luxuries in Early China (July 7, 1998 to January 3, 2016)

  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)

• 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, Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE), Metal-work

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Ornaments, Jewelry