A silver comb

Liao dynasty, 907–1125
Width: 4 1/8 in (10.4 cm)

The delicate comb is composed of a crescent-form top and twenty-eight teeth, the upper part decorated on both sides in repoussé on a ring-punched ground, with two birds on either side of a five-petal flower and arrowheads.

For a Tang dynasty comb, see Pierre Uldry, Chinesis Gold und Silber (Museum Rietberg Zürich: 1994), cat. no. 206.

Published: Asiantiques, Chinese Works of Art (2009), cat. no. 102

Ref. 859474

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