A MIDDLE BYZANTINE OR ISLAMIC GOLD BEAD NECKLACE
A MIDDLE BYZANTINE OR ISLAMIC GOLD BEAD NECKLACE

CIRCA 8TH-9TH CENTURY A.D.

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A MIDDLE BYZANTINE OR ISLAMIC GOLD BEAD NECKLACE
CIRCA 8TH-9TH CENTURY A.D.
With seventeen beads composed of gold sheet cut out to form a openwork designs embellished by filigree and granulation, some with circles with cruciform motifs and some with circles within circles, round and oval bezels vertically between, now set with turquoise and blue glass, interspersed with turquoise beads; strung with a modern hook-and-loop closure
24¾ in. (62.9 cm.) long
Provenance
Patti Cadby Birch, New York, acquired in the 1960s.
Literature
Schmuck aus Persien, Die Sammlung Patti C. Birch im Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Exhibition catalogue, Pforzheim, 1974.
Ukrashenenyja Vostoka iz kollekcii Patti Cadby Birch, Exhibition catalogue: The State Hermitage and Pushkin Museum, Paris, 1999.
Exhibited
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Schmuck aus Persien, 6 July - 29 September 1974.
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, 12 November - 12 December 1999.
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 26 January - 19 March 2000.

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