Serpentine Ancient Bead Necklace

Fine bead necklace set with jade (serpentine), carnelian, jasper and amethyst.

The 16.5″ silk-strung necklace is beaded with all natural stones, 99% excavated.

Instrumental to how this group of ancient beads are expressed is showing their form at the clavicle.

It is not a choker, because it is streamlined and not chunky, with much presence.

Few necklaces are made this way for there are too many factors to control.

Material wise, it is very hard to get ancient jade that is not sleepy, its green so bright and uniform it is mistaken as glass.

The fascination with green jade must have evolved with serpentine.

Simple but ethereal, geology and archeology inseparable in the vessel of ancient beads.

With an 18k gold clasp and 24k hand formed gold balls.