Details
Comprising three similarly shaped double-pronged hairpins encircled by graduated disks, and a hairpin with a twisted flower scroll terminal. One of the hairpins shows Chinese characters read "song (venerable)". Two hairpins show illegible Chinese characters.
Largest: 812 in. (21.6 cm.) long
Provenance
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden.
Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 111.
Literature
Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pls. 149, 150, 151 and 157.
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