A RARE DOUBLE SCABBARD AND KNIVES SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 10TH-14TH CENTURY The handles of the iron knives are embellished with finely chased gold sheet decorated with foliate scrolls and inlaid with small turquoise cabochons. Both scabbards are of slightly different length and attached to each other on one side. Each is made of wood and reinforced with gold and silver sheets decorated with birds and beasts amidst foliate scrolls chased on a dense ring-matted ground and inlaid with small turquoise cabochons. 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) long; weight 76 g Provenance C. T. Loo & Co., New York, before 1941. Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK36. Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 78.
A RARE DOUBLE SCABBARD AND KNIVES SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 10TH-14TH CENTURY The handles of the iron knives are embellished with finely chased gold sheet decorated with foliate scrolls and inlaid with small turquoise cabochons. Both scabbards are of slightly different length and attached to each other on one side. Each is made of wood and reinforced with gold and silver sheets decorated with birds and beasts amidst foliate scrolls chased on a dense ring-matted ground and inlaid with small turquoise cabochons. 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) long; weight 76 g Provenance C. T. Loo & Co., New York, before 1941. Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK36. Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 78.
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