Asian Works of Art

the necklace comprising eight rectangular plaques, four inset with apple green and celadon jadeite plaques carved with floral decoration, the other four silver gilt ones worked to show animal figures circling flower heads, suspending two oval pendants one silver-gilt with similar decoration, the other inset with a jadeite plaque depicting lotus, mounted on a silver-gilt chain; the bracelet with three jadeite reticulated plaques carved with flower heads, interspersed with four silver-gilt plaques delicately worked to depict blooming prunus and magpies, mounted on a silver-gilt chain.