Mallams Ltd. - Cheltenham
Lot 242
Four pieces of jewellery Chinese, early 20th Century consisting of a white metal chatelaine with two small tools, two butterflies and a fish connected by a French Indo-China Piastre silver coin dated 1907, as part of a woman's neck ring, Miao tribal group, neck ring 14cm wide, total piece 29cm long, a necklace with carnelian and agate beads connected with rock crystal beads all on gold silk cord, Tibet or China, late 19th/early 20th Century, 44cm, doubled, total length 88cm, a jade necklace with 96 matched light green beads with Chinese white metal clasp, early 20th Century, 28cm doubled, total length 57cm, and a Tibetan gau amulet silver box, gilt back with front inlayed with silver wire, turquoise and coral, Tibet U-Tsang province, Lhasa with white metal chain, late 19th/early 20th Century, 6.5cm wide Reference: Vanishing Beauty, Asian Jewellery and Ritual Objects from the Barbara and David Kipper Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Press, 2016 Provenance: Originally from a family collection in Oxford. Collected by their ancestors who lived in China in the 1920s/1930s as members of the Foreign Service
