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LOT 1363

Ancient Gold Bead Collection

CIRCA 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.

5/8 - 1 in. (4.51 grams total, 17-27 mm).

Group of large facetted biconical types. [4]

Provenance

From a late Japanese specialist collector, 1970-2000s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. for the category of beads Grillo, K., Aultman, J., DAACS Cataloguing Manual: Beads, 2014, p.6; for similar gold beads in the Royal Cemetery of Ur see Needler, W., Jewellery of the Ancient Near East, Toronto, 1966, p.4.

Footnotes

This category of bead can already be seen in Sumerian jewellery from the 'Royal Cemetery' at Ur, about 2500 B.C. In particular they can be seen on gold chains of interlocking folded rings used to secure the headdress of a man, with facetted gold forehead beads between small beads of carnelian and large ones of lapis lazuli

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LOT 1363

Ancient Gold Bead Collection

Sold for (Inc. bp): £416

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