The Trudy and John Cohen Collection of

THE CHINESE PENDANTS

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Yellow skin nephrite pendant

P36

Nephrite, a pebble with russet brown skin, the body of white mutton fat pierced and carved with lotus flowers, leaves, stalks and buds.

Chinese, 19th Century.
Attachments: Amber bead, seed pearls and blue cord.
Provenance: Robert Hall 1982.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 5.7cm high x 3.8cm wide.

Russet nephrite pendant

P37

Nephrite, mutton fat with brown areas which are the outside of the pebble, the body carved and pierced with a large squirrel around the lower half of the pendant with a grape between its feet, its tail swept up towards the vine leaves.

Chinese, 1780 - 1850.
Attachments: Green quartz bead, seed pearls and green cord.
Provenance: Robert Hall 1986.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 6.8cm high x 4.5cm wide.

Russet nephrite pendant

P38

Nephrite, russet brown skin representing the outside of the pebble, the white body inside carved with a duck, its wings swept up towards the upper part of its body with lotus and millet, and leaves on the other side.

Chinese, 1780 - 1850.
Attachments: Carnelian bead, seed pearls and brown cord.
Provenance: Richard Marchant 1985.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 3.7cm high x 5cm wide.

Russet nephrite pendant

P39

Nephrite of pale white with darker brown areas carved in miniature form showing a reclining dog, its head pointing backwards and its tale looped to receive the cord for suspension.

Chinese, 19th Century.
Attachments: Green glass bead, seed pearls and blue cord.
Provenance: Robert Hall.
Dimensions: 3cm high x 1.4cm wide.

Zodiac sign / Dog

Suzhou nephrite pendant

P40

Nephrite, pale grey, the outside of the body with slightly browner skin, well carved with a monkey against a rocky landscape holding his prize which has been gained from the trees above; the reverse with craggy rock work. Suzhou School

Chinese, 1780 - 1850.
Attachments: Nephrite ring, seed pearls and cream cord.
Provenance: Paula Hallett collection.  Robert Hall 1985.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 6.5cm high x 4.2cm wide.

Zodiac sign / Monkey

Two colour nephrite pendant

P41

Nephrite, pale soapy colour with an olive green side, charmingly carved as two cats, their paws touching.

Chinese, 18th Century.
Attachments: Agate bead, seed pearls and mustard cord.
Provenance: Spinks 1985.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster. Spinks Minor Arts of China II.
Dimensions: 3.5cm high x 2.3cm wide.

Green nephrite pendant

P42

Nephrite, spinach colour, the paler green areas carved as a flowering prunus, above is the gnarled tree trunk and to the side is a small iris bud.

Chinese, 18th Century.
Attachments: Pink glass bead, seed pearls and mauve cord.
Provenance: Robert Hall 1986.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 5.8cm high x 4.1cm wide.

Black & white nephrite pendant

P43

Nephrite, dark grey and mutton fat, carved with a complicated scene showing a prancing horse, roped up and reined, its mane tied and knotted, below pine trees and a monkey. The other side has another monkey carved from a darker material climbing up white rocks, nearby is a gnarled tree trunk carved form the black jade.

Chinese, 18th Century.
Attachments: Rose quartz bead, seed pearls and black cord.
Provenance: Robert Hall 1983
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 5.8cm high x 4.5cm wide.

Zodiac sign / Horse / Monkey

Black & white nephrite pendant

P44

Nephrite, mutton fat white with mottled darker grey areas cleverly carved with two cats playing, the two cats carved precisely from the two colours.

Chinese, 18th Century.
Attachments: Carnelian bead, seed pearls and black cord.
Provenance: Richard Marchant 1982.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 4.8cm high x 3.9cm wide.

Black & white nephrite pendant

P45

Nephrite, mutton fat white with darker grey, carved with two butterfly and a bee with a mulberry fruit and leaves above.

Chinese, 1780 - 1850.
Attachments: Coral bead, seed pearls and black cord.
Provenance: Richard Marchant 1982.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 4.5cm high x 3.2cm wide.

Black & white nephrite pendant

P46

Nephrite, mutton fat with a large pale grey area, carved in the form of a squirrel that is scampering over a bunch of grapes with leaves.

Chinese, 1780 - 1850.
Attachments: Pink quartz bead, seed pearls and black cord.
Provenance: Richard Marchant 1987.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 3.9cm high x 2.8cm wide.

Black & white nephrite pendant

P47

Nephrite, dark grey mottled with mutton fat lighter grey areas, carved in the form of a large, reclining ram, with two other baby rams by the side, one in black.

Chinese, 19th Century.
Attachments: Coral bead, seed pearls and beige cord.
Provenance: Robert Kleiner 1993.
Dimensions: 4.5cm high x 3cm wide.

Black & white nephrite pendant

P48

Nephrite of pale mutton fat colour with darker grey, carved as two feline animals with their paws touching, linked by a bat that is carved from white material.

Chinese, 18th Century.
Attachments: Crystal bead, seed pearls and blue cord.
Provenance: Robert Hall.
Dimensions: 4.5cm high x 3cm wide.

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Three colour nephrite pendant

P49

Nephrite, dark grey with a whiter area and a brown skin carved with peaches to represent the head of a large, tropical exotic bird; below him is another bird snuggled underneath.

Chinese, 1780 - 1850.
Attachments: Blue quartz bead, seed pearls and black cord.
Provenance: Robert Hall 1984.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 5.3cm high x 3.2cm wide.

Three colour nephrite pendant

P50

Nephrite, of pebble form, the brown skin forming the outside of the pendant as rockwork, with a dark grey area carved as a climbing monkey with whiter areas representing peaches.

Chinese, 1750 - 1860.
Attachments: Coral bead, seed pearls and brown cord.
Provenance: Lindsey Hall collection
Robert Hall 1989.
Dimensions: 4.3cm high x 3.4cm wide.

Three colour nephrite pendant

P51

Nephrite, white mutton fat with darker olive and russet brown areas, carved with a rabbit towards the foot of the pendant with a kylin at the top near a gnarled tree. The other side with a hunter and bow trying to find a person hiding up by rocks. The foot with a seal which is carved for the Seal of the artist. Suzhou School.

Chinese, 18th Century.
Attachments: Blue quartz bead, seed pearls and brown cord.
Provenance: Richard Marchant 1982.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 6.4cm high x 3.5cm wide.

Zodiac sign / Hare

Suzhou chalcedony pendant

P52

Chalcedony, agate of pale translucent colour with darker brown skin, carved in the form of a kylin with ruyi fungus and clouds above. The reverse with a rocky cavernous area expertly carved, and a raised inscription to one side. Suzhou School.

Chinese, 19th Century.
Attachments: Smoke crystal bead, seed pearls and grey cord.
Provenance: Sotheby's 1983.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 4.4cm high x 3cm wide.

Chalcedony pendant

P53

Chalcedony, pale translucent grey agate carved as a double gourd covered with bats, whose eyes are carved out of a darker inclusion. The other side with a monkey with eyes also carved from the darker stone and an iris plant and a bat.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: Malachite bead, seed pearls and black cord
Provenance: Robert Hall collection
Robert Hall 1981
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 5.3cm high x 4.3cm wide

Zodiac sign / Monkey

Green skin chalcedony pendant

P54

Chalcedony, pale, translucent grey agate with a green chlorite skin, the grey colour carved with peaches and leaves and a bird, the green carved with leaves, small insects and a frog.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: Moss agate bead, seed pearls and cream cord
Provenance: Harrods 1985
Dimensions: 4.7cm high x 3.8cm wide

Suzhou chalcedony pendant

P55

Chalcedony, pale translucent grey agate with a darker brown skin, carved with a monkey
scampering amongst the pine with a rockery below. The other side with craggy rockwork, pine and clouds and a raised inscription. Suzhou School.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: Coral bead, seed pearls and yellow cord
Provenance: Robert Hall 1985
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 5.2cm high x 3.2cm wide

Zodiac sign / Monkey

Suzhou chalcedony pendant

P56

Chalcedony, pale grey and brown agate with a much darker brown area carved as a large monkey holding peaches amongst ruyi fungus.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: Amethyst bead, seed pearls and cream cord
Provenance: Richard Marchant 1992
Dimensions: 5.2cm high x 4cm wide

Zodiac sign / Monkey

Chalcedony pendant

P57

Chalcedony, pale translucent grey agate with a darker brown skin carved as the eyes of a bat amongst ruyi fungus. The reverse with a long inscription raised from the brown skin.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: Green glass bead, seed pearls and brown cord
Provenance: Richard Marchant 1992
Dimensions: 4.2cm high x 3.3cm wide

Chalcedony pendant

P58

Chalcedony, pale translucent agate of grey brown with ginger russet areas carved with a monkey on one side and a peach down below him. The other side with the ginger colour carved as a monkey, with two peaches on a branch.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: Banded agate bead, seed pearls and brown cord
Provenance: Robert Hall collection
Robert Hall 1981
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 5.3cm high x 3.6cm wide

Zodiac sign / Monkey

Chalcedony pendant

P59

Chalcedony, pale grey translucent agate with russet inclusions carved with two feline animals, together with ruyi fungus.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: Banded agate bead, seed pearls and brown cord
Provenance: George A. Cohen 1981
Published: Item 320 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen (used as a netsuke).
Dimensions: 4.9cm high x 4.1cm wide

Chalcedony Suzhou school pendant

P60

Chalcedony, pale translucent, orange agate carved with a reclining horse on a rocky landscape, the other side with a monkey down amongst rocks and water looking up at tempting peaches. Suzhou School.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: Coral bead, seed pearls and cream cord
Provenance: Richard Marchant 1987.
Dimensions: 4.9cm high x 3.4cm wide

Zodiac sign / Horse / Monkey

Chalcedony pendant

P61

Chalcedony, pale milky colour with orange inclusions carved with an immortal in the rocks with his attendant who holds a fan, the other side with a monkey in a rocky landscape and waterfalls.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: Green glass bead and a blue cord.
Provenance: George A. Cohen 1985.
Dimensions: 5.7cm high x 3.8cm wide

Chalcedony pendant

P62

Chalcedony, pale translucent orange agate with much darker russet areas carved with two feline animals curled up together with chrysanthemum flowers with leaves entwined around.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: Carnelian bead and a blue cord.
Provenance: Robert Hall 1981.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 4.1cm high x 3.4cm wide

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Carnelian pendant

P63

Carnelian, pale creamy white with bright, orange veins, the central white area carved with moths and silk worms, centring around mulberry leaves and fruit, the outside carved with leaves and mulberry fruit.

Chinese, 1780 - 1850
Attachments: Green glass bead, seed pearls and blue cord
Provenance: Robert Hall collection
Robert Hall 1981
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 5.3cm high x 4.4cm wide

Amethyst pendant

P64

Amethyst, with milky inclusions and a dark purple area carved with a bat amongst a double gourd vine, the bottom of the pendant forming the deeper colour and the larger part of the gourd.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: White quartz bead, seed pearls and black cord
Provenance: Robert Hall collection
Robert Hall 1981
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 5.5cm high x 3.4cm wide

Tourmaline pendant

P65

Pink tourmaline, carved in an irregular form with the outline of bamboo surrounding peach sprays and branches.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: Tourmaline bead, seed pearls and black cord
Provenance: Robert Hall collection
Robert Hall 1981
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 4.2cm high x 3.9cm wide

Coral pendant

P66

Coral, pale and darker coloured material, carved with two bug-eyed, fan- tailed carp amongst lotus leaves.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: Moss agate bead, seed pearls and yellow cord
Provenance: Robert Hall 1985
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 5cm high x 3.6cm wide

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Clear amber pendant

P67

Amber of pure, clear, translucent golden colour in the form of a flaming pearl with a dragon draped around it, its head coming over the top in pursuit of ruyi fungus.

Chinese, 1780 - 1850
Attachments: Moss agate bead, seed pearls and blue cord
Provenance: Robert Hall collection
Robert Hall 1981
Dimensions: 4cm high x 3cm wide

Zodiac sign / Dragon

Black amber pendant

P68

Amber of dark toffee colour carved in the form of a perfect peach, its leaves around the top.

Chinese, 18th Century
Attachments: Green jade bead, seed pearls and brown cord
Provenance: Robert Hall collection
Robert Hall 1981
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 4.8cm high x 3.7cm wide

Root amber pendant

P69

Amber of the variety known as Baltic, bright yellow with darker translucent colour, carved in the form of a Fo dog with its young.

Chinese, 19th Century
Attachments: Turquoise bead, seed pearls and beige cord
Provenance: Richard Marchant 1982
Dimensions: 4.2cm high x 4.7cm wide (3.2cm high when not hanging)

Root amber pendant

P70

Amber, of dark translucent golden colour with opaque whiter material carved with a tiger from the translucent material and a dragon amongst clouds from the opaque material, the foot carved with a personal seal.

Chinese, 1780 - 1850
Attachments: Green glass bead, seed pearls and beige cord
Provenance: Mac Beasley Collection
Richard Marchant 1985
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 6cm high x 3.6cm wide

Zodiac sign / Tiger / Dragon

Ruby Beijing glass pendant

P71

Glass of dark red colour imitating amber carved with a formalised design of ruyi fungus throughout, the base with a bat on one corner. Imperial Palace Workshops, Beijing.

Chinese, 18th Century
Attachments: Crystal bead, seed pearls and cream cord
Provenance: Robert Hall 1984.
Published: Included on the exhibition poster.
Dimensions: 4.7cm high x 3.8cm wide

Blue Beijing glass pendant

P72

Glass of pale translucent blue, suffused throughout with lighter creamier areas in imitation of aquamarine, the body carved as a section of bamboo with leaves.

Chinese, 1780 - 1850
Attachments: Pink quartz bead, seed pearls and mauve cord
Provenance: Arthur Gadsby collection
Robert Kleiner 1996
Dimensions: 4cm high x 2.8cm wide

Pure White Nephrite

Pure White Nephrite Ruyi Fungus
P73

Chinese, 1780 - 1850
Attachments:
Provenance: Richard Marchant

Dimensions:
 

Green and Black Nephrite Bats

Green and Black Nephrite Bats
P74

Chinese, 1780 - 1850
Attachments:
Provenance: Richard Marchant

Dimensions:

Yellow Nephrite Carp Pendant

Yellow Nephrite Carp Pendant
P75

Chinese, 1780 - 1850
Attachments:
Provenance: Richard Marchant

Dimensions: