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5 ? and 5 5/8 in. (14 and 14.3 cm.) long; weight 18.3 and 17.6 g; leather box
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, nos. CK63 and CK28. Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 114.
The first hairpin is similar to a gold hairpin, also with two tines that are beaten and chased with two dragons confronted below an open peony blossom, illustrated by Julia M. White and Emma C. Bunker in Adornment for Eternity: Status and Rank in Chinese Ornament, Denver Art Museum, 1994, p. 182, pl. 84, where it is dated Song dynasty. Another hairpin was part of a group of seven gold hair ornaments found in a Yuan-dynasty tomb at Zhoujiatian in Huangpi, Hubei province, and illustrated by Yang Boda, 'Ancient Chinese Cultures of Gold Jewellery and Ornamentation', Arts of Asia, Vol. 38, No. 2, March-April 2008, p. 106, pl. 58.
