Folding Smoked Specs, Openwork Brass, China, 19th Century,

A pretty pair of old glasses, China 19th century, with a beautiful architecture, they are made of brass, original smoked glasses, which are pinched by a beautiful stirrup of elaborate shape and by folding branches at 2/3, chiseled and openworked , ending in circular runners with a central rosette. Dimensions = 12.5cm and 5cm, unfolded branches: 14cm. The condition is good, the metal being very solid, the fixing of the thick smoked glasses deserves to be tightened. According to the former collector: brought back from the Tonkin expedition against the Black Flags, 1886, by E. Ribière