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bead

Object NameBead
Made FromGlass
Date1400-1300 BCE
Place MadeEgypt
Techniquetooled, decorated
SizeOverall L: 1.8 cm
Accession Number54.1.146-4
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionTranslucent deep blue, translucent greenish-blue, opaque white and opaque yellow glass, all bubbly with stone, some surface dulling, otherwise unweathered; all are tooled and trail decorated, formed on a wire or rod. Long cylindrical bead with rounded ends, circular in cross section, deep blue glass with an applied trail of yellow at one end.
Provenance
Source Fahim Kouchakji (b. Syria, 1886-1976)
Transcendence
Karina Malling
2016
fragment
1400-1085 BCE
inlay
25 BCE-99 CE
Whitefriars Inkwell
Whitefriars Glass Ltd.
about 1850-1860
Corning Glass Works, Fallbrook
about 1944-1946