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Two pairs of archaic bronze silver-inlaid chopsticks An archaic bronze ‘dragon’ lock fitting
Song dynasty 13th century
Each cast in the form of an elongated thin rod, the grip moulded in wavy Worked in the form of a dragon issuing a narrow flattened blade, the
design, further decorated with silver-inlaid repeated geometric motifs. opposite end with a baluster ending in a flaming pearl.
One pair 27cm long.
15.6cm long. (4). HK$3,000 - 5,000
HK$10,000 - 20,000 US$390 - 650
US$1,300 - 2,600
十三世紀 青銅龍形插銷
See an example of a pair of silver fire sticks linked with a chain at the
top, dated to the Tang dynasty, unearthed from the crypt of Famen
Temple Pagoda, Fufeng county, Shaanxi province in 1987, exhibited
in the Shanghai Museum on loan from the Famen Temple Museum,
Shaanxi province, illustrated in The Civilization of Zhou, Qin, Han and
Tang Dynasties, Shanghai, 2004, p.264, no.191.

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