Chinese jade belt hook carved as a horned goat

An image of Belt hook/dai gou. Opaque pale green jade with brown flecking. The body of this belt hook is decorated with rows of relief spirals, then narrows slightly to form the neck of a horned goat. The features of the goat, its eyes, ears, mouth and horns are simply shown in slight modelling and with incised lines. Nephrite, length 8.7 cm, 960-1279 AD, Chinese.

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Belt hook/dai gou. Opaque pale green jade with brown flecking. The body of this belt hook is decorated with rows of relief spirals, then narrows slightly to form the neck of a horned goat. The features of the goat, its eyes, ears, mouth and horns are simply shown in slight modelling and with incised lines. Nephrite, length 8.7 cm, 960-1279 AD, Chinese.

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Accession Number: O.35-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/29.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 511 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 47.40kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 29/1
Captured: 2008:03:04 23:47:50

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AD animal animals belt clasp belt hook carved Chinese dai gou decorated decoration decorative Fitz_AA goats jade nephrite ornament spirals

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