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Last year there an assortment of Chinese beads appeared at auction, including what appeared to be old court necklace beads, a scroll weight, filigree necklace, cloisonne pieces... http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/25260684_lot-of-early-chinese-cloisonne-jewelry And then what seem to be three matched beads from this lot appeared on eBay. They just arrived yesterday. They seem to be the older style of cloisonne, using silver enamels that were fired only once and not ground or polished. 23mm hole-to-hole. Florence has a necklace of small beads in this technique. There's a post about these somewhere here, but I also featured them in my blog if you want more pictures - http://www.beadiste.com/2015/01/puzzling-evidence-rare-deco-chinese.html I'm guessing these are from around World War I-1920s, when there were still older court necklace craftsman around who could work in small detail on things like beads? [The Qing dynasty ended in 1912] All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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