Lot 32. An Ordos silver garment-hook, Eastern Zhou, 6th-4th century BC; 19.5cm., 7 5/8 in. Weight 74,5g. Estimate 1,000 — 1,500 GBP. Lot sold 4,375 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's 2008

the large body worked in repousse in the shape of a crouching beast, the legs partly hidden underneath the body, the head lifted and ears raised, the tail tapering and forming the hook, the reverse with a small button.

Exhibited: Musee Cernuschi, Paris, November 1938

Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1954-55, cat. no. 147.

Literature: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 147.

Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 146.

Sotheby's. Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork, Early Gold and Silver; Early Chinese White, Green and Black Wares, London, 14 May 2008