Garment hook (daigou)

Object Details

• Provenance

  To 1943

  Yamanaka & Company, New York, to January 1943 [1]

  From 1943 to 1948

  C. T. Loo & Company, New York, purchased from Yamanaka & Company in January 1943 [2]

  From 1948

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo & Company on July 14, 1948 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See C. T. Loo's stockcard no. NYL-43/482: "Jade buckle. Finely carved buckle in a yellowish ivory colour covered with a field of small coils and a finely penciled abstract motif on each side and terminated with horned dragon's head. Late Chou," C. T. Loo & Frank Caro Archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy in object file. According to an annotation on the stockcard, the object was purchased from Yamanaka & Company.

  [2] See C. T. Loo's stockcard cited in note 1. On June 1, 1944, the object was taken by Loo to the Freer Gallery for examination.

  [3] See C. T. Loo's invoice, dated July 14, 1948, 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 (March 15, 1982 to June 15, 1982)

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

  Ancient Chinese Jade (September 4, 1980 to March 6, 1981)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965)

  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, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Art, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE), Carving, Chinese Art, Nephrite, Incising, Jade, Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE), Dragon

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Ornaments, Jewelry