朝珠
Court Necklace
1800-1873 (made)
1800-1873 (made)
| Place of origin |
Court necklace, 108 amber beads divided by three large beads of green jade, with acentral plaque and two pendants of jade ornamented with blue kingfisher feathers on metal mounts, and three strings of corundum beads, ten in each, with jade pendants ornamented with blue kingfisher feathers.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
|
| Title | 朝珠 (alternative title) |
| Materials and techniques | Amber, jade, corundum, kingfisher feathers, carved |
| Brief description | Court necklace with detached pendant, amber, jade, corundum beads and metal mount decoration with blue kingfisher feathers, China, Qing dynasty, 1800-1873 |
| Physical description | Court necklace, 108 amber beads divided by three large beads of green jade, with acentral plaque and two pendants of jade ornamented with blue kingfisher feathers on metal mounts, and three strings of corundum beads, ten in each, with jade pendants ornamented with blue kingfisher feathers. |
| Style | |
| Object history | Purchased from the Tayler Collection, accessioned in 1873. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project. Part of a large group of Chinese and Indian objects purchased from Mr William Tayler. There is a long report on the collection by Matthew Digby Wyatt, the museum’s Art Referee, but he makes not mention of provenance. The register notes that this object comes' From the Summer Palace, Pekin’, but there in no further information in the archive. The Summer Palace, or Yuanming Yuan, was the imperial summer retreat located north of Beijing, which was plundered and destroyed by British and French troops during the Second Opium War in 1860. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1126:1, 2-1874 |
About this object record
Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images. It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum. Some of our records may contain offensive and discriminatory language, or reflect outdated ideas, practice and analysis. We are committed to addressing these issues, and to review and update our records accordingly.
You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.
Suggest feedback
You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.
Suggest feedback
| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
| Record URL |
Download as: JSON
