bead
Object NameBarrel-Shaped Eye Bead
Made FromGlass
Dateabout 500-300 BCE
Place Madepossibly Tunisia, Carthage; possibly Eastern Mediterranean
TechniqueFormes on a rod, trail-decorated, tooled
SizeOverall H: 3.1 cm; Rim Diam: 3 cm
Accession Number64.1.13
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Past | Present: Expanding the Stories of Glass
Life on a String: 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead
Not On View
Physical DescriptionBarrel-Shaped Eye Bead. Opaque white glass matrix with composite eyes of opaque white and translucent deep blue glass along with monochrome prunts of turquoise and opaque yellow, trails of opaque yellow spirally wound with opaque white, turquoise and opaque red-brown, bubbly, pitted, thick milky-white weathering crust with patches of dark enamel weathering crust over entire bead; formed on a rod, trail-decorated, and tooled. A large and long cylindrical white matrix bordered on each end and divided in half by three heavy yellow trails spirally wound with turquoise, red and white, within the two registers formed by these trails and left in high relief are a series of composite eyes, five in each register composed of a layer of white sandwiched between two layers of blue, the upper surface rounded to form a heavy prunt, each of these in turn separated from the next by a small prunt of either turquoise or yellow; horizontally pierced with a large suspension hole 6 mm. diameter.Provenance
Source
Ray Winfield Smith
(American, 1897-1982) - 1966-01-04
