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COLLIER DE COUR EN AMBRE, JADE, AMETHYSTE
ET LAPIS LAZULI, CHAOZHU
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XIXEME SIECLE
Le collier est composé de cent huit perles en ambre opaque
de couleur miel espacées de trois perles «tête de Bouddha» en
améthyste. La partie inférieure est décorée d'une double-gourde
en deux parties (fotouta), d'une plaque ovale en jade blanc à
laquelle est suspendue une goutte d'améthyste et de trois
chaînes de perles de lapis lazuli se terminant par des gouttes
d'améthyste similaires délicatement montées en métal doré.
Longueur du tour du collier: circa 116 cm. (circa 45æ in.)
Diamètre approximatif d'une perle en ambre: circa 1,5 cm. (circa
1/2 in.)
€5,000-7,000 US$5,900-8,200
£4,600-6,300
PROVENANCE:
Previously from a French private collection.

The Qing court necklace was an essential part of court dress,
indicating both rank and season, with different materials
required for different ceremonies. The materials and form
of the mandarin necklace were strictly codified in the Qing
Huidian Tukao, written in the early Qing dynasty, and also in the
Huangchao Liqi Tushi, compiled during Qianlong's thirtieth year
(AD 1767). Linked to the Buddhist rosary, the complete necklace
was composed of one hundred and eight beads separated into
four sections of twenty-seven beads by larger 'Buddha's head'
beads, and hung with three strings or tapes which hung down
the back.
Compare to a highly comparable honey amber, jadeite and
coral court necklace, dated 18th century, in the collection of the
Metropolitan Museum of New York, previously gifted by Heber
R. Bishop in 1902, accession number 02.18.924 (fig.1.)

fig.1. The Metropolitan Museum of New York.
See another amber and jadeite court necklace from the Lizzadro
Collection, dated late 19th century, with the same blue threads
as the current necklace, sold at Christie's New York, 21 March
2013, lot 892.
AN AMBER, JADE, AMETHYST AND LAPIS LAZULI COURT
NECKLACE, CHAOZHU
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
清十九世紀 蜜蠟108子朝珠
來源:
法國私人舊藏