Context (Related Documents)
Historic label: 'Beads from Tatsenlu [?in] Szechwan'
[Transcribed 13/7/2001]
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
Catalogue card: 'A perfect specimen of same type is in Metropolitan Museum, New York'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card: 'C.G. Seligman suggests these may have come from Tatsenlu, 12 000 ft up on China - Tibet road'
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Three etched carnelian beads, broken in antiquity.'
Event Date 1935
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
The catalogue card and label read 'Tatsenlu'. This has now been identified as Kangding, also known as Tachienlu.
Event Date 31/10/2023
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Analysis)
The beads were originally described as being broken in antiquity, presumably due to an assumption that they would have been cylindrical with symmetrically tapered ends. The truncated ends are smooth and polished. It is possible that they were made as conical beads or broken and re-shaped.
Event Date 31/10/2023
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
String of three etched carnelian beads. Slightly biconical with circular cross-section; etched with geometric motifs of lines and circles. Originally described as being broken in antiquity.
Event Date 31/10/2023
Author: Katrina Dring