bead

Object NameEye Bead

Made FromClay, Glass

Dateprobably 399-221 BCE

Place MadeChina

TechniqueBeadmaking

SizeOverall Diam: 3 cm, Th: 2.7 cm

Accession Number51.6.556

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Exhibition of East Asiatic Glass

Curiosities of Glassmaking

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

陶胎蜻蜓眼珠

Physical DescriptionEye Bead. Clay covered with tan-colored, turquoise-blue, and yellow glasses; beadmaking. Spherical shape; decorated with devitrified turquoise-blue glass swirls and twelve stratified medallions, each of which is composed of a circle of originally yellow glass (now brown) enclosing six "eyes" of turquoise-blue glass originally encircling a seventh, large, "eye".
Provenance

Source Ovar Karlbeck - 1975-05

Former Collection C. T. Loo, Inc.