THREE BYZANTINE GLASS BRACELETS

CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.

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THREE BYZANTINE GLASS BRACELETS
CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
Comprising one black in colour, ribbed; one blue; one turquoise; together with a large cobalt blue reticella glass bead wound with white and yellow threads, Hebron, circa 13th-15th Century A.D.
3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) diam. max. (4)

Provenance

Bangle: Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 14-15 December 1981, lot 415. Other: Acquired between 1955-1998.

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Lot Essay

For similar reticella beads from Hebron cf. E. M. Stern, Roman, Byzantine and Early Medieval Glass 10 B.C.E - 700 C.E., Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001, pp. 393-395, nos 225-227 and M. Spear, Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum, Beads and Other Small Objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p. 146, no. 274.

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