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Eye Bead

Eye Bead

 
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Object Name: 
Eye Bead
Department
Ancient
Place Made: 
China
Date: 
about 399-300 BC
Color
Opaque light green
Technique
coiled, hot-worked
AAT
coiling
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam: 2.4 cm, Th: 2 cm
Accession Number: 
51.6.554
Location: 
On Display
Description
Opaque light green glass; hot-worked, coiled. Entire surface background and colored portions of the compound "eyes" now lost leaving only the original white layers of the stratified eyes; heavy from lead content.
Provenance
Karlbeck, Ovar, Source
1975-05

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Exhibitions

Curiosities of Glassmaking
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2007-04-01 through 2007-10-21
West Bridge Show; traveling to The Gallery at Steuben in 2008 (cancelled 6-2008)
Exhibition of East Asiatic Glass
Venue(s)
Toledo Museum of Art 1948-10-03 through 1948-10-31
Publications
1
 

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