This year’s selection of works of art, drawn from private collections, ranges from the Warring States period to the Qing dynasty. Two objects are deaccessioned from a private museum in Osaka, Japan: the first being a fine Han dynasty silver- and turquoise-inlaid gilt-bronze belthook (no. 4) with an unusual design of two bears, a motif often depicted in other objects and materials but rarely seen on belthooks, and the second, a gilt-bronze basin (no. 5) with an inscription and date to the rim, also from the same period. This vessel is elegantly engraved with coiled dragons to the interior, as found in other vessels of this period.

Fine Art Asia, Hong Kong, October 2023