Description:

Egypt, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. A gorgeous ensemble of wearable beads shaped from faience, glass, and stone. Included are dozens of tubular and seed-form beads that are interspersed between other unique beads. The noteworthy beads on this composition include a steatite wadjet eye with a seated sphinx on the verso, a pinched glass droplet pendant, a faience grazing creature, a triangular bead, a grazing hippo, and a blue-glazed scarab. A lotus-shaped column capital bears the image of a crowned sphinx on the reverse, and the center faience pendant depicts a gourd-shaped sphere with slender indentations. A wonderful necklace fitted with a modern gold-hued French hook and loop. Size (necklace): 20.75" L (52.7 cm); (largest pendant): 0.8" W x 0.65" H (2 cm x 1.7 cm)

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-Walter Crawford collection, Arizona, USA, 1960 - 1970

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#174661

  • Condition: Wearable as shown and strung in modern times. Faience, stone, and glass beads are ancient; stringing and metal components are modern. Minor softening to some finer details, fading to colors, chips to areas of some beads, and light earthen deposits. Great colors and variety of beads!

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