A MANDARIN COURT NECKLACE 'CHAOZHU'

Description:

China, Qing dynasty
L. ca. 140 cm
With 108 amber beads in four groups of 27 each, separated by four jadeite beads, one jadeite bead with an additional cone, to which in turn two more jadeite pendants are attached, with three shorter strings bearing ten red glazed porcelain beads.
From the Zeileis collection, assembled in the 1980s and 90s
Published in: Friedrich Georg Zeileis, 'Ausgewählte Chinesische Jade aus sieben Jahrtausenden', Gallspach, 1994, no. 344, pp. 440-441 - Partially slightly chipped