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Pendant Bead

Pendant Bead

 
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Object Name: 
Pendant Bead
Department
Ancient
Category
Origins of Glassmaking
Jewelry
Place Made: 
Eastern Mediterranean or Carthage
Date: 
600-250 BC
Color
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opaque white glass
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deep blue
Technique
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core-forming
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off-hand process
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall L: 2 cm
Accession Number: 
52.1.33 B
Location: 
On Display
Description
Pendant Bead. Opaque white glass, pitted with weathering film on surface, applied translucent deep blue glass; core-formed with trailed and tooled decoration. Small pendant bead in the form of a ram's head modeled in white with applied eye of blue and a blue cane with spirally twisted white applied as horns, onto this is attached a blue ear.
Provenance
Parke-Bernet Galleries, NYC, Source to 1952
Mansoor, M. A., Former Collection to

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Publications

Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) p. 110, #221; pp. 113-114, #229; BIB# 29547
The magnificient collection of ancient Egyptian art, Greek and Roman sculptures ... formed by M. A. Mansoor (1952-01-31) lot #199;

Objects In Set

2 Pendant Beads
Date:600-250 BC
Accession Number:52.1.33
Pendant Bead
Date:600-250 BC
Accession Number:52.1.33 A
 

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