1943.52.57: Belt Hook with Figural Decoration, possibly the Queen Mother of the West (Xiwangmu)

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

Permissions

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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

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