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Object NameString of Beads

Made FromGlass, Waxed Linen, Foil

TechniqueLampworked, wound

SizeOverall L: 39.3 cm

Accession Number91.3.299

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Arline B. Oliphant in name of Naisha Butler

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern
Postwar and Contemporary

Physical DescriptionString of 79 glass beads. 16 foils, square tabular, opaque "clambroth" with band of silver foil covered with blobs of transparent amber and opaque pink glass, lampworked; 10 ovoid tranparent peach, wound; 24 circular transparent smoley colored, faceted; 29 colorless faceted - 2 circular, 7 bicones, 17 short truncated cones; 3 transparent pale pink faceted bicones. Strung on waxed linen.
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