Mandarin Necklace
- Chinese name
- 朝珠
- Pinyin
- Date
- Qing Dynasty
- Medium
- Jade (nephrite), Gold, Glass, Coral
- Dimensions
- height 137.2 cm
- Accession no.
- 1952.472
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
A court necklace of jade and coral beads, known as a chaozhu. The form is not a general-purpose necklace: bead counts, spacer beads and the arrangement of the pendant strands were fixed by Qing court regulation and signalled the wearer's rank.