TWO SOUTH EAST ASIAN CULTURED PEARL AND METAL THREAD ROPE NECKLACES

TWO SOUTH EAST ASIAN CULTURED PEARL AND METAL THREAD ROPE NECKLACES, MID 20TH C one of fifty nine 0.5-0.8cm cultured pearls, the other of seventy nine 0.4-0.8cm cultured pearlsProvenance: Rajan Nehru (1909-1994) by whom acquired in China to which her husband Ratan Kumar Nehru was Ambassador of India, 1955-58, or brought from China by him in the early 1960s, when engaged in diplomacy.