Pendant formed of elongated globe of pink silk net-work hanging from threads of the same material, below which is a glass bead bound below in black threads and beneath this is a tassel formed from the threads in the pendant.
Mrs Elsie M Howells donated several Chinese costumes and dolls that previously belong to her Aunt, who was a medical missionary in China for almost fifty years, from the late 19th century to the 1940s.
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