Images(3)

bead

Object NameBead with Three Human Faces

Made FromGlass

Date500-150 BCE

Place Madepossibly Eastern Mediterranean; possibly Carthage

TechniqueCore-formed, trailed, tooled

SizeOverall L: 3.4 cm, Diam: 2.6 cm

Accession Number68.1.42

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

On ViewAncient Gallery

Physical DescriptionTranslucent bluish-green glass, pitted with thin iridescent film, applied opaque white, opaque yellow and transparent deep blue glass; core-formed with trailed and tooled decoration. Large cylindrical bead with three faces worked into surface, two adjacent faces have large opaque white circles with applied blue eyebrows and blue eyes, small white nose and round yellow mouth applied below circle, dot ears in white with a small button of yellow above and below for jewelry; a single face of yellow with small with white mouth below, ears in yellow highlighted with white jewelry, hair and beard for all faces indicated by a row of large yellow relief dots applied along top and bottom of bead followed by a row of slightly smaller white dots just beneath the yellow ones.
Provenance

Source Mahboubian Galleries - 1968