Lot no. 353
COLLECTION OF GRAECO-ROMAN GLASS AND STONE BEAD NECKLACES.
Ca. 200 BC - AD 200
A collection of three glass and stone bead necklaces, including, from left to right: a strand of dark glass tubular beads with lightly ribbed exterior, on a plaited cord; a composite necklace formed of globular mosaic glass beads along the lower section, rising through banded agate, lapis lazuli and amethyst beads spaced with carnelian and centred by a trail-decorated cylindrical bead; and a shorter necklace of multicoloured glass beads in varied cylindrical, globular and polygonal forms, including mosaic and eye beads, all restrung.
Size: 140-300mm x 6-11mm; Weight: 120g.
Prince collection, 1990s-2014; Ex. Private collection 1970s-1990s.
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