21 African amber and trade bead African beads Oie Khing Liem also employed

Oie Khing Liem also employed Van Zuylen's workers resulting in this superb batik

These too are old

They are separated by small pale blue 19th or early 20th-century European glass hexagonal bicones and gold-plated silver beads from Sulawesi

It is hard to date precisely but most probably it is from the '20s or '30's

It is joined by a sequence of natural crystal beads

21 African amber and trade bead African beads Oie Khing Liem also employedThis necklace is made from African amber beads combined with African trade beads, coral, blue Ming and antique wood beads covered in gold foil from Sumatra, strung on German silk thread.