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Object NameHorned Eye Bead

Made FromGlass

Date350-100 BCE

Place Madeprobably Near East

TechniqueFormed on a rod, trail-decorated

SizeOverall Diam: 1.9 cm, Th: 1.6 cm

Accession Number54.1.144

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Curiosities of Glassmaking

Past | Present: Expanding the Stories of Glass

Not On View

Physical DescriptionHorned Eye Bead. Turquoise blue matrix with six high relief eyes of opaque white, colorless glass with a yellowish tinge and translucent deep blue glass; formed on a rod, trail-decorated. Some scale, bubbly, dull surface; formed in a tapering rod, possibly on a thin core. Long cylindrical body decorated with two sets of three composite eyes, each group placed in triangular formation but rotated a quarter turn so that the protrusions of one set occur immediately above the space of the other, each eye composed of alternating layers of white and colorless repeated seven times and finished with a small rectangular element of blue.
Provenance

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