Lot Essay
US$8,000-10,000
Details
A JADEITE, DIAMOND AND 18K GOLD PENDANT
The thick, fine-textured bright to brilliant apple green stone well carved on both sides with lotus flowers, lotus roots and a beetle on lotus leaves, representing the rebus yin he de ou or the wish to find one's ideal partner and to bear progeny, with randomly-set circular-cut diamonds, to the scrolled 18K gold and diamond surmount and pendant bail of Oriental inspiration, the pendant, Qing dynasty; the mounting late 1960's
Pendant 53.20 x 34.66 x 7.82 mm.
The thick, fine-textured bright to brilliant apple green stone well carved on both sides with lotus flowers, lotus roots and a beetle on lotus leaves, representing the rebus yin he de ou or the wish to find one's ideal partner and to bear progeny, with randomly-set circular-cut diamonds, to the scrolled 18K gold and diamond surmount and pendant bail of Oriental inspiration, the pendant, Qing dynasty; the mounting late 1960's
Pendant 53.20 x 34.66 x 7.82 mm.