Beautiful ancient Chinese turquoise bead talisman made in the 1st millennium BC during the reign times of Han and Western Zhou dynasty. It depicts a rabbit with precisely carved details of an animal and irregular, funnel shaped holes for suspension. It has undergone a professional cleaning process to highlight beautiful natural blue-green colour of the gemstone at the same time, without removing all the originally preserved earth sediments and signs of patina on its surface. *** MUSEUM EXHIBIT - Artifact was exhibited in Southeast Asian Gold Museum (in Budapest, Hungary) for 6 months in 2013 with other ancient bead talismans from the collection of former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat Dr. István Zelnik. Dimensions: 20 mm (W) x 12 mm (D) x 14 mm (H) Excellent condition - intact, well-preserved ARTIFACT WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY: * Modern jewellery cord ended by clasp so that artifact can be worn. * Certificate of Authenticity (COA) document with all information about the artifact and its photos. Document is providing the owner of this object its lifetime authenticity warranty. Provenance : The item was purchased by our company from a very prestigious Belgian auction house in 2023. Previous ownership history: - H.E.B.L. private collection (former ambassador in China) - Dr. István Zelnik private collection former highly ranked Hungarian diplomat, researcher, author of more than 30 essays, albums and books about Southeast Asian art, politics and economy. Dr. Zelnik is also a well known collector who owns onee of the one of the largest private collections of Asian art in Europe with more than 80 000 objects including more than 10 000 gold artifacts, jewellery and ritual objects (considered as one of the 3 most important private gold collections in the world). - H.V.P. auction house collection