ANTIQUE CHINESE Straits Peranakan Large CARNELIAN STERLING SILVER Ring size 8

Description

ANTIQUE CHINESE STRAITS PERANKAN  Large CARNELIAN 925 STERLING SILVER Ring
Quality Hand Made See interior sides of ring.
size 8
wt 10 grams
The sides have a flower design  on each side possibly ..Peony use in a lot of Chinese Straits Jewelry and design
marked 925
Carnelian Gemstone Measures
approx. 19 mm long x 14 mm wide x 4 mm ht.
Tested with a Presidium Gem tester
has a rope design around the large Carnelian Gemstone.
The front of  the ring measures just over and inch.
Non smoking home
Has age related Patina
The Straits Or  Peranakani Chinese were Skilled Silversmiths who left mainland China in the late 19th century and settled in Burma, Indonesia Singapore etc.
There works were influenced by  local  Silversmiths, still keeping to ancient Chinese themes..
Very rare pieces.
in the early fifteenth century, a beautiful princess from the Chinese Ming Dynasty, Hang Li Poh, arrived in Malacca to be presented as a bride to the Malacca Sultan. Part of her entourage included five hundred youths and several hundred women attendants of noble descent, to wait on her and keep the princess company in her new home.
This entourage settled down in Bukit China in the Malay Archipelago, eventually inter-marrying with the local Malays. The mixed marriages marked the beginning of a new generation of people in Malaya, the Peranakans or Straits Born Chinese.
Later on, early Chinese traders from the Kwantung province in China intermarried with local Malay women, adding to the population of the Straits Born Chinese.
Theirs is a heritage unique to Southeast Asia, a mixture of Malay and Chinese cultures with a dash of the English way of life.
In their heyday, the Babas and Nyonyas were wealthy and influential people in the business world. This is evident in their jewelry costumes (sarung kebaya), shoes and embroidery pieces, items of refined workmanship highly sought after by art and antique collectors.