1. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, July 29, 2008) "Jewelry" and "Ornament" added as secondary classification.
2. (Daisy Yiyou Wang, February 28, 2013) Title changed from "Garment hook" to "Garment hook (daigou 帶鉤) with scrolls"; Period One added "Eastern Zhou 周 dynasty"; Period Two added "Warring States period"; Date added "4th--3rd century BCE."
For comparative pieces in the Freer collection, see F1915.231 and F1948.13, published in Thomas Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C. (Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, 1982), pp. 165-66, cat. no. 113, 114.
3. (Jeffrey Smith per Matthew Clarke, August 2, 2022) Medium changed from Jade to Jade (nephrite).
4. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, February 9, 2023) Changed title from "Garment hook (daigou) with scrolls" to "Garment hook with mask and raised dragon elements"; Date changed from "4th-3rd century BCE" to "475–221 BCE"; and added Chinese translation by Jingmin Zhang.
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