Context (Display)
Display label: 'JADE BEADS / with hole made by boring from each end. / ?HAN DYNASTY'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Catalogue card: 'Purchased at Steven's Auction Room about 8 years ago with a brown jade disc with dragons on top. Stated to have been found together.'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Auction / Sale)
Purchased at the Henry Edward Laver sale, Stevens Auction Rooms, 19 October 1926.
Event Date 19/10/1926
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Seven ancient brown jade beads. The cylindrical ones are bored from both ends.'

Event Date 1934
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
A string of seven brown jadeite beads. Three cylindrical beads with biconical perforations; two cylinder disk beads; one barrel bead with biconical perforation; and one conical bead or pendant with perforated tang.
Event Date 27/10/2023
Author: Katrina Dring