TWO SMALL EARLY BEADS

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TWO SMALL EARLY BEADS
WARRING STATES

One a glass bead, of deep turquoise color (now altered to an opaque milky turquoise color) inlaid in white (now altered to a yellowish-buff color) with rows of concentric circles connected by dotted lines; the other a gray pottery bead made in imitation of a glass prototype, molded with two rows of large bosses glazed with concentric rings in yellow, pale green and white reserved on the leaf-green ground
3/4 and 11/16in. (1.9 and 1.8cm.) diam., fitted boxes (2)

Lot Essay

Although not identical in design to the glass bead being offered, other glass beads of this period are illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji: Gongyi meishu, Jinyin boli falangqi (A Complete Collection of Chinese Art; Arts and Crafts; Gold, Silver, Glass and Cloisonné), vol. 10, Beijing, 1987, p. 107, pl. 202-204. And a group of glass and earthenware beads are illustrated by Jessica Rawson, The British Museum Book of Chinese Art, New York, 1992, fig. 190