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bead

Object NameString of 20 beads (kodama)
Made FromGlass, Steatite (?)
Date250-552
Place MadeJapan
Techniqueprobably tube-cut
SizeOverall H: 0.3 cm, Diam: 0.4 cm
Accession Number62.6.9
Credit LineGift of Dorothy Blair
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionTranslucent turquoise-blue, greenish, grayed blue and dark blue glasses, plus one steatite (?) bead; probably tube-cut. Spherical-shape.
Provenance
Source Dorothy Blair - 1962-04-23
Former Collection Kaoru Nagase
Former Collection Oku-Kokokan
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