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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]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
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.
FootnotesThis 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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Western Asiatic Alabaster Circular Palette
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Ex London and Geneva collection, pre-1988. Accompanied by an old dealer's information label. 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. -
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