Antique Chinese Jade Filigree Bracelet 20k
20k antique Chinese jade bracelet set with 6 jadeite jade cabochons, in the style of a bracket link bracelet.
The flat cut cabochons are quite big, each 16mm across and 11mm tall, but arranged in an East West setting the jewellery takes on an artful direction completely.
The East West cabochons housed in a filigree similarly tall is reminiscent of old time Chinese bracelets, where small wrists may fit thick bracelets. The charm of this piece is this particular Chinese aesthetic, in these bracelets that are neither petite nor thickset – they're hard to locate!
Yet the bracelet feels like a slice of gold in your hand. The open work in the filigree is thinly solid.
The jadeite jade is arranged to showcase the family of green jadeite, a tad mottled with white peeking and all natural. The beauty of unmatched and somehow seamless green jadeite is bohemian, free.
The bracelet is likely to be from the '30s, yet nothing comes up quite like it, old or modern. That's the allure in this piece.