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LOT 0656
Roman Blue Cut-Glass and Rock Crystal Bead Necklace
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D. AND LATER
29 in. (89 grams, 74 cm long).
Restrung necklace of graduated blue glass polyhedral and fusiform beads, with possibly later interstitial biconvex and polyhedral rock crystal beads.
Provenancewith a London, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
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LOT 0656
Roman Blue Cut-Glass and Rock Crystal Bead Necklace
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
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1st-2nd century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
Composed of a discoid body with sunken discus bearing a scene of two gladiators in combat in relief, tabula ansata below, ring handle and roughly D-shaped nozzle with volutes; old crack to base. 84 grams, 12.4 cm
From a German collection. Ex Cambridge, UK, collection, 1980s.
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