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LOT 0023
Egyptian Faience Necklace with Pendant
1400-1100 B.C.
30 in. (41 grams, 76 cm long).
Alternating white and turquoise tubular beads with oval spacer bead; a collar terminal as a central pendant with two rows of petal-shaped beads incorporating tubular and ring spacers suspended below.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
Cf. Andrews, C., Ancient Egyptian Jewellery, London, 1990, p.58, fig. 41, for examples of similarly shaped collar terminals.
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LOT 0023
Egyptian Faience Necklace with Pendant
Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)
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