Carnelian pendant, 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.

Reverse: Carnelian pendant, 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.

THE CHINESE COLLECTION

 

Silkworms & Mulberry Pendant

 

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

 

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