bead

Object NameString of 29 Short Beads

Made FromGlass

Date1736-1912

Place MadeChina

Techniquecoiled, pierced

SizeOverall L: about 12 cm; Small Beads Diam: about 0.4 cm; Larger Bead H: 0.7 cm, Diam: 0.8 cm; Terminal L: about 1.5 cm

Accession Number64.6.30 B

Credit LineGift of Alan Priest

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern
Early Modern

Not On View

Physical DescriptionTransparent greenish-blue, opaque white, colorless, brown and rose-colored glasses; beads coiled and two terminal pendant drops formed and pierced with suspension holes. Twenty-nine greenish-blue, four opaque white, and one colorless small beads, one larger rose-colored spherical bead and a terminal rose-colored drop; undecorated.
Provenance

Source Alan Priest - 1964-01-03