Two Chinese Brass Paper Knives and a Handheld Mirror. The first of long pointed shaft, finely incised to one side with a dragon pursuing a flaming pearl, the other side with leafy tendrils issuing blooms, with an inscription 'China', mounted with a carved celadon jade belt hook terminating in a dragon head; the second in the form of a sword, cast with a diaper pattern containing trefoils; the third a glass mirror with a lacquered wood frame carved in openwork with a foliate design, applied on the reverse with a carved peony spray over a lacquered relief-carved geometric roundel, the handle with an aperture suspending a carved wood mythical animal. {Length of the mirror: 12 inches (30.5 cm)}.