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Lot *88
A RARE CARVED FRUIT NUT AND GLASS COURT NECKLACE
Estimated Value:
1.500 € - 2.500 €
Schätzpreis:
12.000 €
Description:
China, 19th ct.L. 95 cm
The necklace is comprised of one hundred intricately carved nut beads depicting figures and deer are partly inscribed. The beads are spaced by four large light blue glass beads, the fota suspends a flattened glass pendant and terminates in a glass dewdrop, and is further enhanced by three tassels strung with green glass beads, each terminating in a light blue glass dewdrop.
From the collection of Hermann Friedrich Ensinger (1872-1937).
Incomplete, partly mounted later, beads partly slightly chipped and silk ribbons partly damaged
