AN AMBER AND JADEITE COURT NECKLACE (CHAO ZHU) QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

consisting of a strand of ninety amber beads, divided into groups by the three mottled jadeite beads and the two-part jadeite double-gourd-form fotou bead at the back, with two of the three jinian strands of coral glass beads suspending filigree-mounted tear-drop hardstone pendants

Collection of Robert Lee Scott, acquired in Beijing, circa 1945.

There are a number of amber beads missing, one amber bead is broken, one has a chip, and a number have minute nicks. One tear-drop shaped hardstone pendant is missing, as is the oval pendant that would have been suspended from the two-part double-gourd shaped jadeite bead. Necklace has been restrung.
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