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THBGraeco-Phoenician Glass Eye Bead Necklace
Lot 39b
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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An important one-day auction featuring museum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine Art, so much more! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Classical World, northern/eastern Mediterranean, Greco-Phoenician, ca. 6th to 1st century BCE. A stunning necklace constructed from dozens of spherical glass beads in primarily blue and yellow hues. The body of the necklace is elegantly strung with thirty opaque yellow beads that alternate with translucent blue beads inlaid with opaque white, yellow, and dark-blue glass to form the sclera and pupils of the circular 'eyes.' The center of the necklace flaunts a barrel-shaped, cobalt blue glass pendant of a sizable form with trails of opaque light-blue glass around each end, tricolor eye nodules protruding around the carinated midsection, and globules of opaque yellow, green, and turquoise glass embellishing the surrounding areas. Strung in modern times and fastened with a gold-filled loop and French hook combo, this is a fantastic necklace that exemplifies the expertise of ancient Mediterranean glass artistry! Size (necklace): 19.5" L (49.5 cm); (barrel pendant): 1.6" L x 1.3" W (4.1 cm x 3.3 cm)
For a stylistically similar necklace composed of polychrome eye beads, please see: Stern, E. Marianne and Birgit Schlick-Nolte. "Early Glass of the Ancient World: 1600 B.C. - A.D. 50 | Ernesto Wolf Collection." Verlag Gerd Hatje, Germany, 1994, p. 199, no. 41.
For another stylistically similar necklace, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 17.194.734.
Provenance: ex-La Reine Margot, Paris, France, acquired in the 1990s
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#152865Strung in modern times and wearable as shown. Repairs to three or four opaque yellow beads, with small chips and very light adhesive residue along break lines. Chips to eye material on some blue glass beads, with minor nicks and abrasions to most beads commensurate with age, and light weathering film and encrustations. Light earthen deposits on some beads, with faint iridescence on some smaller beads, and great rainbow iridescence on barrel pendant.Condition
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