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Object NameString of 19 Mixed, Multicolored Beads

Made FromGlass, Plastic-coated Wire

Date1600-1699

TechniqueDrawn, tooled

SizeOverall L: about 33.5 cm

Accession Number2010.3.153

Credit LineGift of Anna and Willem Lameris

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Life on a String: 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead

Place Made

Netherlands

Physical DescriptionString of 19 Mixed, Multicolored Beads. Multi-colored opaque glass, plastic-coated wire; tooled, some beads with threaded decoration. 19 long cylindrical beads strung on plastic-coated wire. Beginning at one end, the beads are: blue with red and white stripes, black with red and white stripes, black with white stripes, black with red and white stripes, solid red, yellow ochre with red and blue stripes, red with white stripes, white with red stripes, white with red stripes, light blue with red and blue stripes, light blue with blue stripes, light blue with white stripes, light blue with red and white stripes, blue with red and white stripes, brown with red and white stripes, green with reddish patches of iridization, solid red, solid blue, and solid yellow ochre.
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