Lot 86
86
EARLY GLASS THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A RARE LONG STRAND OF SIXTY-FIVE EARLY GLASS BEADS, comprising beads of varing tones of blue, all with concentric blue and white bosses several centred with single or triple pale russet dots, most glass beads still retaining their translucency, others opaque and with degraded surface,

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A RARE LONG STRAND OF SIXTY-FIVE EARLY GLASS BEADS, comprising beads of varing tones of blue, all with concentric blue and white bosses several centred with single or triple pale russet dots, most glass beads still retaining their translucency, others opaque and with degraded surface,

Warring States Period
the largest bead 3cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Compare to a 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.210; and another included in the exhibition, Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art 1991, Catalogue, no.220

A group of four related glass beads from the Arther M. Sackler Collection was sold in our New York Rooms, 1 December 1994, lot 117

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