Chinese pearl court necklace, ChaoZhu beads. 19th C., Qing Dynasty court necklace comprised of well strung 108 natural round shape pearls accented by four larger carved lapis lazuli beads bordered with smaller red coral beads. Encircled toward the center Fotou connecting to a golden-yellow ribbon suspending oval shaped Filigree mounted with agate pendant, followed by the central back-cloud (BeiYun) quartz crystal gourd shaped pendant. Additional three strings of ten Lapis-Lazuli beads each suspending a similar quartz crystal pendants, with enameled floral bead cap.

Dimension: 42-1/2" L

Excellent condition, with normal anomalies in nature, sign of stressed surface. Surface traced wear and or declined to gilding. Normal, considering ages and wears.

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