Lot Essay
(AGm 1, AGm 1, AGm 7A, AGm 3.2)
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
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AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION BEAD NECKLACE
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
With turquoise glazed amulets and beads including a quadruple wedjat-eye and a cowrie shell bead, interspersed with red glazed composition and green glass spacer beads, 16 in. (40.5 cm.) long; another bead necklace with tubular green glazed composition beads and blue glass disc beads, with five later glazed pottery lotus pendants, 30 in. (76 cm.) long, both restrung; a blue glazed composition papyrus sceptre, 2½ in. (6.5 cm.) long; and a turquoise glazed composition djed-pillar 1¼ in. (3.2 cm.) high (4)
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
With turquoise glazed amulets and beads including a quadruple wedjat-eye and a cowrie shell bead, interspersed with red glazed composition and green glass spacer beads, 16 in. (40.5 cm.) long; another bead necklace with tubular green glazed composition beads and blue glass disc beads, with five later glazed pottery lotus pendants, 30 in. (76 cm.) long, both restrung; a blue glazed composition papyrus sceptre, 2½ in. (6.5 cm.) long; and a turquoise glazed composition djed-pillar 1¼ in. (3.2 cm.) high (4)
Provenance
Plesch collection; acquired from Bernheimer, Boston, Mass., U.S.A., August 1971 (item 1); acquired from D. T. Bowring, London, May 1982 (item 2), and June 1978 (items 3 and 4).
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