CHINA

Name: TWO SILVER GARMENT HOOKS
Brand: CHINA
Price: 5500.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 6,930

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TWO SILVER GARMENT HOOKS

CHINA

Price Realised USD 6,930

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Comprising a hook cast with a fierce demon with a phoenix-head terminal and a hook cast in the form of a crouching animal.
First: 6 in. (15.3 cm.) long, weight 100.5 g, leather box
Second: 7⁵⁄₈ in. (19.4 cm.) long, weight 74.5 g

First:
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden.
Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 124.

Second:
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK147.
Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 32.

First:
Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, p. 130, pl. 90.

Second:
B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, cat. p. 45, no. 147.
Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, p. 194, pl. 146.

First:
New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The Kempe Collection, 1971, cat. no. 39, an exhibition touring the United States and shown also at nine other museums.

Second:
Paris, Musée Cernuschi, November 1938.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 147.

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