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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
Translucent green
Technique
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coiling
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 1.9 cm, Diam: 2.8 cm; Bore Diam: about 0.4 cm
Accession Number: 
67.6.2
Credit Line: 
Gift of Chait Galleries
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Translucent green, very heavy, glass; coiled. Spherical shape; probably originally entirely covered with stratified "eye" motifs.
Provenance
Chait Galleries, Source
1967-11-02

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Publications

Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 1) (1999) pp. 150, 250; BIB# 61154
Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 2) (1999) p. 352; BIB# 61154

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