TWO RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE 'ZOOMORPHIC' BELT HOOKS The first Warring States/Han Dynasty; the second Ordos, 4th/3rd century BC The first unusually cast and pierced as a three-clawed chilong dragon biting a coil, possibly a small snake, issuing from the stomach of a horned beast forming the hook, the reverse with the characters Xin Lun, fitted box, 9.5cm (3 3/4in) long; the second Ordos, cast as a striding tiger with striped hide looking backwards to its coiled tail, 10cm (4in) long. (3). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 戰國/漢 銅螭龍形帶鉤 及公元前四至三世紀 虎形帶鉤 各一 Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2008, no.3. (chilong) 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2008年，編號3（螭龍形帶鉤） See a related example illustrated by J.So and E.Bunker, Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier, Washington, 1995, no.95; see another example illustrated by N.Palmgren, Selected Chinese Antiquities from the collection of Gustaf Adolf Crown Prince of Sweden, Stockholm, 1948, pl.26.10. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com