The Indus Civilization c7.16

c7.16

A necklace of peculiar beauty consists of a single row of barrel-shaped, translucent, green jadeite beads, each separated from the next by a disc-shaped bead of gold formed of two slightly domed pieces of metal soldered together round the edge. Seven pendants of agate and jasper hang from the centre of this exceptional necklace, and the whole effect is very fine. The jadeite probably came from North Burma, but supplies of it are also said to exist in Tibet.