A Rare Small Parcel-Gilt Silver and Cowrie Shell Garment Hook Western Han dynasty (206 BC- AD 8) The heavy silver mount finely worked as a recumbent dragon with long neck gracefully curved backwards to form the hook, the elongated head with duck-like bill and small expressive eyes, a slender crest trailing from the back of the head grasped in the right front claw, while the talons of the left front claw grasp the other side of the neck, all of the legs with an additional long curved claw rising from the knees and those on the back legs rising to frame and hold the small russet-marked cowrie shell that forms the beast's body, the short, ribbed tail curved around to form a loop in back, with a large circular button on the underside 2in. (5.1cm.) long, box
A Rare Small Parcel-Gilt Silver and Cowrie Shell Garment Hook Western Han dynasty (206 BC- AD 8) The heavy silver mount finely worked as a recumbent dragon with long neck gracefully curved backwards to form the hook, the elongated head with duck-like bill and small expressive eyes, a slender crest trailing from the back of the head grasped in the right front claw, while the talons of the left front claw grasp the other side of the neck, all of the legs with an additional long curved claw rising from the knees and those on the back legs rising to frame and hold the small russet-marked cowrie shell that forms the beast's body, the short, ribbed tail curved around to form a loop in back, with a large circular button on the underside 2in. (5.1cm.) long, box
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