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LOT 0461
Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Necklace
LATE NEW KINGDOM, 1295-1069 B.C.
18 1/8 in. (9.54 grams, 46 cm long).
Restrung designer necklace using tubular green-glazed beads in a double row, interspersed with small two-holed beads; the central feature a net-like composition of small brown and blue-glazed ring-shaped beads.
Provenance
By repute, 'Excavated at Gurob by Prof. Flinders Petrie. From a quantity of beadwork taken from the neck of a mummy'.
Ex 1920s UK collection.
Literature
Cf. faience necklaces and pendants with similar typology in Boyce, A., ‘Chapter II, Collar and necklace designs at Amarna: a preliminary study of fayence pendants’ in Kemp, B.J. (ed), Amarna Reports 6, pp.336-371, figs.11 lett.4a-b and 5, lett.a,g, p.338.
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LOT 0461
Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Necklace
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
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