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A PAIR OF ENGRAVED SILVER SCISSORS
The scissors have a ‘fgure-eight’ handle and fat blades, one blade
engraved on both sides with a panel of a small bird and foliate scroll, the
other slightly convex side with detached, demi-forets, all on a
ring-punched ground.
5¬ in. (14.3 cm.) long; weight 32.6 g
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953,
no. 106.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 67.
EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 106.
New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The
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Kempe Collection, 1971, cat. no. 51, an exhibition touring the United
States and shown also at nine other museums.
LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 106.
Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far
Eastern Antiquities, No. 29, Stockholm, 1957, pl. 13a, fgs. 7a, 77t and 79d.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
556 and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 111.

A PAIR OF ENGRAVED SILVER SCISSORS 銀鏨刻卷草飛鳥紋剪
The scissors have a ‘fgure-eight’ handle and fat blades, one engraved
on both sides with a panel of a small bird and foliate scroll, the other with
detached demi-forets, all against a ring-punched ground.
5æ in. (14.5 cm.) long; weight 30 g
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953,
no. CK107.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 68.

EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 107.
LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 107.
Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far
Eastern Antiquities, No. 29, Stockholm, 1957, fgs. 7b, 77s, 79f and pl. 13 a.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 112. 556

銀鏨刻卷草飛鳥紋剪