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Object NameBead
Maker Brian Kerkvliet
Made FromGlass
Date1990
Techniquewound bead inlaid with preformed face and eye
SizeH: 1.7 cm, D: 1.9 cm
Accession Number90.4.130
Credit LineGift of Brian Kervliet
Curatorial Area(s)
Place Made
United States
Physical DescriptionColorless, opaque white, black, purple, yellow ochre glasses; wound bead inlaid with preformed face and eye canes and decorated with applied canes. Biconical shape, flat at top and bottom with bulbous profile and vertical perforation; at widest point: one face cane with face in profile, neck and upper part of bust, overlaid with colorless glass; opposite this, one eye cane, also with colorless overlay; above and below canes, continuous horizontal band of superimposed purple, black and silver wavy lines with colorless overlay.
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Object copyright© Brian Kerkvliet
cup
25 BCE-99 CE
Giacomo Franchini
1846-1847
Luigi Moretti
1888-1894
figurine
Fulvio Bianconi
1950
inlay
25 BCE-75 CE
plaque
25-75