Pair of Chinese beaten silver alloy scissors

An image of Pair of scissors. Unknown maker, China. Pair of beaten silver alloy scissors. The handle is a wire spring shaped and the cutters are slightly convex on one side, and flat on the other. Each of the flat sides is decorated with a flying bird and a palmette scroll, and each of the convex sides with confronted palmettes. The pattern is bounded by a narrow plain border and chased on a ground of regular ring matting. Silver alloy, engraving, blades, chasing, length 14.9 cm, width 2.8 cm, T’ang Dynasty (618-906).

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Pair of scissors. Unknown maker, China. Pair of beaten silver alloy scissors. The handle is a wire spring shaped and the cutters are slightly convex on one side, and flat on the other. Each of the flat sides is decorated with a flying bird and a palmette scroll, and each of the convex sides with confronted palmettes. The pattern is bounded by a narrow plain border and chased on a ground of regular ring matting. Silver alloy, engraving, blades, chasing, length 14.9 cm, width 2.8 cm, T’ang Dynasty (618-906).

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Accession Number: O.229-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 83.65kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1

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