A SOUTH EAST ASIAN NECKLACE OF EMERALD BEADS

A SOUTH EAST ASIAN NECKLACE OF EMERALD BEADS, C MID 20TH C of seventy nine 0.5- 1.1cm approx irregular emerald beads, gold clasp and part of another necklace of emerald beads (2)Provenance: 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.