A LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY CHINESE JIAN OR STRAIGHT SWORD, 83.5cm flattened diamond section blade, profusely inlaid in silver with courtly figures, characters and dragon, characteristic brass mounted hilt embossed with entwined dragons and foliage, two-piece bone grip decorated with courtly figures within a blossomed landscape, contained in its embossed brass mounted wooden scabbard decorated to match.