A GROUP OF THIRTY-FIVE SMALL ARCHAIC GLASS BEADS

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A GROUP OF THIRTY-FIVE SMALL ARCHAIC GLASS BEADS
WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH/3RD CENTURY B.C.

Comprising two barrel-shaped beads of blue color inlaid in turquoise and white with a central row of bosses on a raised band, with triangles and dots above; four horizontally ribbed blue-green beads; and twenty-nine compressed globular beads of blue or turquoise color inlaid in white with 'eyes' and dots
3/8 to ¾in. (.9 to 1.9cm.) across (35)

Lot Essay

For a group of ten beads of varying shape from the Hubei and Hunan Provincial Museums see the exhibition Catalogue, War & Ritual, Treasures From The Warring States, 475-221 B.C., The Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1993, pp.118-119. See, also, Zheng Hou yi Mu, Hubei Sheng Bowuguan (Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng - The Museum of Hubei Province), no. 2, Beijing, 1989, col. pl. 20, no. 4