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Object Name7 Blue Tubular Beads on a String
Made FromGlass
Date1700-1800
Place MadeNetherlands
TechniqueDrawn, ground
SizeOverall H: 5 cm, W: 4 cm; Average Bead H: 1.5 cm, W: .7 cm
Accession Number70.3.99
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical Description7 Blue Tubular Beads on a String. Shadow blue opaque glass; drawn, ground. Cylindrical to tubular monochrome beads; Opaque shadow blue; 7 specimens. Broken ends. Some with longitudinal stripes on the surface.
Provenance
Source H. Alastair Lamb
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