Garment hook (<em>daigou</em>) with interlace
date: label: Date
content: 5th-4th century BCE
label: Period
content: Late Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period
notes: label: Provenance
content: To 1948
label: Provenance
content: Jun Tsei Tai (1911-1992), Shanghai, to November 1948 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1948 to 1949
label: Provenance
content: C. T. Loo & Company, New York, purchased from Jun Tsei Tai in November 1948 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1949
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo & Company on November 7, 1949 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See C. T. Loo's stockcard no. 46141: "Gild bronze buckle, curved rounded body with dragon's head hook, entirely covered with floral motives in gold inlaid. Late Chou," C. T. Loo & Frank Caro Archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy in object file.
label: Provenance
content: According to an annotation on the stockcard, Loo purchased the object from J. T. Tai in China. Jun Tsei Tai (more commonly known in the West as J. T. Tai), known also as Dai Fubao in Shanghai, was a successful art dealer who was initially based in Shanghai China. Tai became one of C. T. Loo's most prolific suppliers in the 1940s. In 1949, however, J. T. Tai fled with his family to Hong Kong, when Communist leaders came into power. In 1950, he immigrated to New York City, where he established J. T. Tai & Company, a successful company that specialized in the sale of Chinese arts.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See C. T. Loo's stockcard cited in note 1. On February 21, 1949, the object was sent to the Freer Gallery for examination.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See C. T. Loo's invoice, dated November 7, 1949, copy in object file.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Personal Luxuries in Early China (July 7, 1998 to January 3, 2016)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Art (February 18, 1983 to April 1, 1987)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Community, 480-222 B.C. (September 30, 1982 to February 17, 1983)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Jun Tsei Tai 戴潤齋 (1911-1992)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: C. T. Loo & Company (1914-1948)
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: casting
label: Topic
content: inlay (process)
label: Topic
content: metal
label: Topic
content: bronze
label: Topic
content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)
label: Topic
content: Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1949.24
objectType: label: Type
content: Jewelry and Ornament
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bronze inlaid with gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 10.6 x 1.8 x 2.2 cm (4 3/16 x 11/16 x 7/8 in)