A gold mounted thirty five bezoar stones necklace, 

A gold mounted thirty five bezoar stones necklace, 

North India, 19th century, 



Each stone in filigree design cage, each half worked as an open flower, in two parts, one element with one stone now detached, old label written in black ink reading "Given to me by his Ex. the Maharaja Sir Chandra Shum Sheve Jang Prime Minister and Marshal of Kashmir, Nepal. 1911"



Longer part 52cm. long (26 stones), shorter part 16.5cm. (8 stones),  



Provenance :

Captain Sir Bryan Godfrey- Faussett, Equerry-in-Ordinary to King George V (1910-1936) 

Thence by descent