Catalogue entry no. 465 by Max Loehr:
465 Belt Hook
Variegated olive-greenish, translucent jade with opaque, bone-colored areas. The body has the shape of an elongated rectangle that tapers toward the hook; its cross-section is rectangular, and its corners are rounded. The upper face of the body is decorated with plastic curls in a sunken field, which is framed by a hollow-ground border with five crisply cut notches. The notched border is incised with diagonal lines joined to small cross-hatched field. The hook is shaped as a feline head with trapezoidal outline; it is treated less sculpturally than the head on No. 462, which is altogether the more refined of the two pieces. The sides of the belt hook are decorated with spirals and cross-hatching. On the back, the lower end of the body shows a simplified animal mask while the tapering stem has S -curved lines with adjoining cross-hatched areas. The oval button, placed transversally, shows a simple, incised ornament of four C -shaped volutes surrounding an oval. Late Eastern Chou..
