Silver ornamental personal care set with coral and turquoise inlay, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty-China Archive

Image Number: K1D006422N000000000PAC
Dynasty: Qing dynasty
Category: Miscellaneous objects
Function: Clothing accessories, tools
Material: Minerals/Metals/
Description:
Long strip, rectangular body, with the top of the tweezers as the axis, ear digs and spoons similar to the length of the tweezers body are installed on both sides, as well as triangular silver pieces on the top, with a perforation on the tip of the silver piece, grey cotton thread and a coral bead; The device opens a long and thin opening in the middle of the two tweezers, and two silver buttons cross the opening. One is inlaid with coral beads, and the other is inlaid with turquoise. The two connected buttons can be moved to adjust the opening and length of the tweezers; The patterns on both sides of the tweezers are different. One is to carve a number of plane cloud patterns with roe patterns as the ground; The other side is full of diamond patterns and small decorative patterns. On both sides, a flower with core is carved on the bottom of the tweezers; The triangular silver sheet on the top is inlaid with coral and turquoise on both sides, coral on one side in the center, and turquoise on the other side.