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THE PROPERTY OF A WEST COAST PRIVATE COLLECTOR
AN EGYPTIAN CARNELIAN BEAD NECKLACE
NEW KINGDOM TO LATE PERIOD, 1550-343 B.C
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AN EGYPTIAN CARNELIAN BEAD NECKLACE
NEW KINGDOM TO LATE PERIOD, 1550-343 B.C
Composed of pendant amulets including turtles, opium poppy seed pods, fish, baboons, Bes, some abstract, graduated in size, interspersed with mostly biconical beads
15¾ in. (40 cm.) long
NEW KINGDOM TO LATE PERIOD, 1550-343 B.C
Composed of pendant amulets including turtles, opium poppy seed pods, fish, baboons, Bes, some abstract, graduated in size, interspersed with mostly biconical beads
15¾ in. (40 cm.) long
Provenance
Possibly from the first find at Deir el-Bahri.
Bulaq Museum, Cairo, sold by Emile Brugsch, Museum Director, retired 1914.
Col. Anthony J. Drexel, acquired for the Drexel Museum, Philadelphia, 1895.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1916, purchased the collection for $5000 from Drexel; deaccessioned in 1958.
with Blumka Gallery, New York, 1958.
Acquired by the current owner prior to 1976.
Bulaq Museum, Cairo, sold by Emile Brugsch, Museum Director, retired 1914.
Col. Anthony J. Drexel, acquired for the Drexel Museum, Philadelphia, 1895.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1916, purchased the collection for $5000 from Drexel; deaccessioned in 1958.
with Blumka Gallery, New York, 1958.
Acquired by the current owner prior to 1976.
Literature
G.D. Scott III, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 139a, p. 188-189.
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1985-1990.
San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, California University and elsewhere, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, 8 January - 30 December 1992.
San Bernardino, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum, California State University, 1994-2010.
San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, California University and elsewhere, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, 8 January - 30 December 1992.
San Bernardino, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum, California State University, 1994-2010.
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