The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Belt Hook

late 500s–early 400s BCE

China, Eastern Zhou dynasty

(770–256 BCE)
bronze inlaid with powdered azurite
Overall: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1992.49
Location: Not on view
  • ?–1992
    (James J. Lally, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1992–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79. Mentioned: p. 78, no. 415 www.jstor.org
    Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. "New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 8 (1994): 270-347. Reproduced: cat. no. 14, p. 293; Mentioned: pp. 292-96, 346 www.jstor.org
  • China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023).
    Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994).
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