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LOT 0408
Egyptian Faience Bead Collection
NEW KINGDOM-LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1550-332 B.C.
2 1/2 in. (61 grams total, 64 mm).
Mainly tubular, annular and oblate types in various colours. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired from Ancient & Oriental, circa 1987.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
Cf. Riccardelli, C., Mass, J.L., Thornton, ‘Egyptian Faience Inlay Techniques: a process for obtaining detail and clarity by refiring’ in Material Issues in Art and Archaeology VI, Boston, vol.712, 2002, pp.II10.7.2II.10.25, for discussion of the Egyptian faience of the New Kingdom.
FootnotesThe faience of the New Kingdom period is frequently decorated with an expanded palette of red, black, and yellow. This polychrome decoration was often accomplished by inlaying one colour of paste onto another.
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