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Object Name5 Beads or Pendants

Made FromGlass

Place Madeprobably Egypt

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number54.1.147

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

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Physical DescriptionI) Translucent yellow-brown glass appearing black, translucent deep blue glass, opaque white, opaque yellow, and turquoise glass; formed on a core or wire, trail decorated, tooled. Dark blue glass, slight weathering and pitting, two flattened blue spheres held together by an opaque yellow part forming a groove and a hole. II) Opaque very deep brown appearing black, with opaque light yellow trail. Rod-formed, applied, and tooled. Pendant shaped like jar with globular body. Jar is decorated with continuous yellow zig-zag, which is flush with wall; it has disk-shaped pad base, and suspension loop at top. Cavity in zig-zag and second cavity in loop appear to be broken bubbles. III) Translucent yellow-brown glass appearing black, translucent deep blue glass, opaque white, opaque yellow, and turquoise glass; formed on a core or wire, trail decorated, tooled. Eye pendant of flat disc shape, opaque yellow glass flattened on one side with a yellow-brown dot in a large white field backed with yellow-brown, a suspension loop of medium blue glass applied at top; beads horizontally pierced. IV) Translucent yellow-brown glass appearing black, translucent deep blue glass, opaque white, opaque yellow, and turquoise glass; formed on a core or wire, trail decorated, tooled. Donut-shaped form of two arcs of opaque white glass joined by two loops of black glass, each loop horizontally pierced for suspension. V) Translucent yellow-brown glass appearing black, translucent deep blue glass, opaque white, opaque yellow, and turquoise glass; formed on a core or wire, trail decorated, tooled. An earplug of dark blue glass spirally wound with opaque white trail finished with a rim of turquoise.
Provenance

Source Fahim Kouchakji (b. Syria, 1886-1976)