A RARE GLASS BEAD NECKLACE

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A RARE GLASS BEAD NECKLACE
WARRING STATES

Comprising thirty-two beads, including seven large greenish-blue glass beads inlaid with dark turquoise and yellowish-green eyes within white grooved circles, nineteen turquoise glass beads and three white glass beads, as well as a turquoise oblong bead and an agate bead, some of the glass beads still retaining some translucency but most now opaque and with degraded surface--largest bead 1 1/8 in. (2.9cm.) across

Lot Essay

Compare the glass bead necklace excavated in 1978 from the tomb of Zeng Houyi, Hubei province, Sui county, Leizu mound, illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, vol. 10, no. 201 and another included in the exhibition, Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, November 30, 1990-February 10, 1991, Catalogue no. 220