Carved and pierced old Chinese jadeite and red coral earrings. erja920

These earrings feature two beautiful old and unique Chinese carved  and pierced green jade oval button ornaments once used as sew-on ornaments to hats and clothing. These dangle from dark salmon color natural Mediterranean small round beads.The oval disks are prong set in silver plate.  Sterling silver wire and ear wires. The dangle is 1.25x.5 inches. Total length 1.5 inches.  These earrings are made from jade and coral sourced from Hong Kong in the 1970s.

Carved jade buttons  have been made in China for almost 2,000 years... each is hand carved.

They were used as pendants, earrings, buttons or attached to ladies hair ornament