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CIRCA 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
Details
A NEAR EASTERN GOLD, FAIENCE AND GARNET BEAD NECKLACE
Circa 2nd Millennium B.C.
Composed of ten gold sheet lozenges, twenty faience beads, twenty-eight hemispherical and six tubular gold elements, all interspersed with garnet spacers, with additional gold elements, garnet beads and a leaf-shaped gold sheet as the pendant
22 in. (55.9 cm.) long
Circa 2nd Millennium B.C.
Composed of ten gold sheet lozenges, twenty faience beads, twenty-eight hemispherical and six tubular gold elements, all interspersed with garnet spacers, with additional gold elements, garnet beads and a leaf-shaped gold sheet as the pendant
22 in. (55.9 cm.) long
Provenance
Acquired by the current owner in the mid 1990s.