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137 A VERY RARE GILT-BRONZE SCISSORS AND TWEEZERS SET
TANG DYNASTY
唐 銅鎏金鏨花剪連鑷

the scissors with the looped spring handle welded to flat pointed blades, each finely engraved to one side with a striding scaly
dragon detailed with a long tail formed from stylized foliate scrolls, the other side with a pair of birds in flight among scrolling
foliage, all reserved on a ring-punched ground, the loop end attached to a chain connecting the tweezers similarly decorated
on each side with a bird amid foliate scrolls against a stipple ground
Length of scissors 5½ in., 13.9 cm

$ 8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Frank Caro, successor to C.T. Loo, New York, 29th 弗蘭克•卡羅（盧芹齋繼任人），紐約，1954年10月29日
October 1954. 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
展覽
EXHIBITED 《The Arts of the T’ang Dynasty》，洛杉磯郡藝術博物館，
The Arts of the T’ang Dynasty, Los Angeles County 洛杉磯，1957年，編號123
Museum, Los Angeles, 1957, cat. no. 123.

It is extremely rare to find Tang gilt-bronze scissors preserved with their original tweezers and chain. Only two other
sets appear to be published. One with a pair of slightly different shaped scissors, from the collection of Desmond
Gure, London, included in the exhibition catalogue Mostra d’arte cinese [Exhibition of Chinese art], Venice, 1954,
cat. no. 277, and a line drawing of the same published in Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, The Museum of Far
Eastern Antiquities Bulletin, no. 29, Stockholm, 1957, fig. 7, 8, no. e; the other with stylized tweezers and chain, in the
Hakutsuru Museum, published in Hakutsuru eiga : hakutsuru bijutsukan meihin zuroku [Selected masterpiece of
Hakutsuru Museum], Kobe, 1978, pl. 35. Another undecorated set of scissors and tweezers, but missing the original
chain, was sold in these rooms, 4th June 1986, lot 250.

唐銅鎏金剪連原配鑷及鍊者極為罕見。除本品外，應僅 of Far Eastern Antiquities Bulletin》，號29，斯德哥
另見兩例出版。其一剪刀形狀稍異，出自倫敦 Desmond 爾摩，1957年，圖7及8，編號e。其二鑷及鍊略異，白
Gure 伉儷收藏，曾展於《Mostra d’arte cinese》，威 鶴美術館收藏，載《白鶴英華:白鶴美術館名品図錄》，
尼斯，1954年，編號277；其線描圖載於 Bo Gyllens- 神戶，1978年，圖版35。紐約蘇富比亦曾售一例，無紋
värd，〈T’ang Gold and Silver〉，《The Museum 飾，連鑷，無原鍊，售於1986年6月4日，編號250。

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