A CHINESE JADEITE COURT NECKLACE

A CHINESE JADEITE COURT NECKLACE
LATE QING DYNASTY

Comprising: 108 beads joined by a single larger bead and tassel, 98cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Major-General Ian Lyall Grant MC, RE (1915-2020), who fought the Japanese in Burma in World War II.

After the war he co-founded the Burma Campaign Fellowship Group to reconcile those who had fought each other in Burma. A keen collector of antiques he later became a Fellow of the Gemmolological Association of Great Britain (FGA). He travelled extensively in Japan, China and the Far East, collecting gems and other items for the shop he and his wife ran in the West Country.