Chinese sword Jian with shuangshi style mounting

The history of China, it's traditional things and arms as well as the original technologies of development of it's making research shows it's great interest for modern researchers. The development of two-way communications between People's Republic of China and Russia in economy, cultural and scientific spheres motivated serious interest to the archaeology, history and culture of old China. During last several years the community of researches who are professionally work in the field of Chinese history, collectors and fans appeared in our country. This wide group of professional and non-professional researchers makes the interest to the artifacts material culture of old China actual. The subject of this article is the Chinese sword jian with mounting decorated in shuangshi style, from one of the private collections of oriental antiquities in Russia. Our publication represent the description of the sword and it's peculiarities. Due to the description of this sword and the analysis of it's characteristics, authors of the article came to the conclusion about sword's authenticity, technical peculiarities of it's making and characteristics of it's decorations.