Pair Of "chinese Plate" Chopsticks From The 19th Century

If, we, French, have "the traditional baguette", the Chinese, them, use it to eat ..... and to juggle. This discipline, born in China at the time HAN, 200 years before our era, was part of "shows of a hundred talents" where acrobats, dragon dancers, musicians and jugglers competed in skill; Attested to in manuscripts in the 14th century, this art already included figures annexed to the simple (!) rotation of the plates, (the poor ones.) The 2 sticks presented have an exceptional length, reserving them for virtuosos of the specialty; their sleeves are trimmed with a very fine braiding, having a ring to guide, with the index, the rotary movement. Their extremities are flat and unrefined like today, even if there is mention of "fitted" plates at the time! They are decorated with golden branches and the black one has the trilobed motif, dear to Chinese decorations; Their state lets us suppose that they come to us from the 19th century but the absence of older survivors does not help us.