Blue and White Eye Bead

Object Name: 
Blue and White Eye Bead

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Object Name: 
Blue and White Eye Bead
Place Made: 
Turkey, near Izmir
Accession Number: 
91.3.105-5
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam (max): 1.9 cm, Th: 1.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1991
Credit Line: 
Gift of M. Vest and T. Sode
Primary Description: 
Blue and White Eye Bead. Cylindrical opaque cobalt blue bead with opaque white and transparent turquoise trailed eyes.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Vest, M., Source
1991-12-09
Sode, Torben, Source
1991-12-09
Category: 
Beads
Color: 
cobalt blue
white
turquoise
Technique: 
lampworking
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Curiosities of Glassmaking
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2007-04-01 through 2007-10-21
West Bridge Show

Objects in Set (5)

5 Eye Beads
Date:about 1991
Accession Number:91.3.105
Turquoise Eye Bead
Date:about 1991
Accession Number:91.3.105-1
 
Green Eye Bead
Date:about 1991
Accession Number:91.3.105-2
Blue and White Eye Bead
Date:about 1991
Accession Number:91.3.105-3
 
Turquoise Eye Bead
Date:about 1991
Accession Number:91.3.105-4