Chinese necklace created by the well-known California jewelry artist, Pat Tseng. The necklace, skillfully made with yarn-stuffed hand-dyed silk tubing for a modern effect. Combined with traditional Chinese knot work to highlight special antique jade beads. The central bead is a piece of jade carved in the form of a fu-lion and cub. Other round beads and bi-shaped rings are made of jades in a variety of greens and yellows.
Pat Tseng was featured in "Ornament Magazine" in 2015 where her creations are referred to as "exquisite simplicity". Her work is also published in Ornament Magazine in 1993, in an article titled "Pat Au-Young Tseng, Auspicious Emblems" by Douglas Bullis.
And in 2014 Pat Tseng was honored as a distinguished artist by the city of San Francisco.

Dimensions: 7" wide diameter. Jade fu-dog 2 1/4" wide.