Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 16 March 2015
Continental & Oriental Silver, Furniture and Decorative Arts including a Collection of Italian Glass
Lot Estimate
ZAR 60 000 - 80 000
About this Item
A Chinese nut and glass chao zhu, Qing Dynasty, 19th century
composed of eighty-eight carved nut beads, divided at evenly spaced intervals with a blue glass Buddha's head bead, the blue glass fota suspending a blue ribbon divided by an oval jiepai (connecting plaque) of pierced blue glass and suspending a conforming teardrop-shaped pendant, the necklace enhanced by three blue strings of jinian, 'reminder', each composed of ten carved and coral-pink stained bone beads weighed down by teardrop-shaped blue glass drops, approximately 102cm long
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