A PAIR OF SILVER SCISSORS

the handle twisted in the form of a figure of eight and welded to flat tapering blades engraved on each side with panels of a small bird flying amongst loose foliage scrolls against a finely ring-punched ground

Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1954-55, cat. no. 106.

Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The Kempe Collection, Asia House Gallery, New York, 1971, cat. no. 51, an exhibition touring the United States and shown also at nine other museums.

Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 106.

Bo Gyllensvärd, 'T'ang Gold and Silver', Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 29, 1957, pl. 13a, figs. 7a, 77t, 79d.

Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 111.

The scissors show some very light overall surface wear and scratching and some darker areas of patination. The blades do not fully cross.
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