IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 138331 accession number: O.229-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 11 March 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pair of beaten silver alloy shears. 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. title: pair of scissors NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Oscar Raphael creditline: Oscar C. Raphael Bequest, 1941, received in 1946 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/138331 TECHNIQUES ---------- chasing CATEGORIES ------ category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 618 - 906 creation date earliest: 618 creation date latest: 906 culture: T’ang Dynasty (618-906) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 14.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 2.8 CITATIONS -------- Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection: A Catalogue --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/large_O_229_1946_1_201601_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 768 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/mid_O_229_1946_1_201601_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: 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