Sale 1583
New York
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8 December 2005
Price realised
USD 3,840
Estimate
A ROMAN CARNELIAN AND GOLD BEAD NECKLACE CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D. Composed of thirty carnelian disk-shaped beads interspersed with nine hollow gold sheet disk-shaped beads; strung with a modern openwork palmette hook-and-loop closure 16½ in. (41.9 cm.) long
Provenance
European Private Collection, acquired in the 1980s.
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