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Object NameEarring or Pendant
Made FromGlass
Date1400-1300 BCE
Place MadeEgypt
Techniqueformed on a copper wire, trail-decorated, tooled
SizeOverall H: 1.7 cm, W: 2 cm
Accession Number59.1.46
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionOpaque yellow, opaque white and amethyst glass appearing black; bubbly with some stone; formed on a copper wire, trail-decorated and tooled. Fat U-shaped element tapering at each end (cashew nut-shaped) upper surface decorated with five rather carelessly placed trails of opaque white spirally wound with amethyst glass, some completely marvered into the surface, others left in relief; one tip broken, short segment of copper wire protruding from the other.
Provenance
Source Ray Winfield Smith (American, 1897-1982) - 1959-07-27
bead
Mr. Larteh
1900-1972
bead
1880-1950
bead
about 450-650
Vittorio Costantini
about 1985-1989