EGYPTIAN FAIENCE NECKLACE WITH LOTUS AMULET
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Ptolemaic Period, Ca. 332 - 30 BC.
An Egyptian necklace composed of dozens of faience beads in seeds and tube forms. The colours range from white, to green, to pale red. The necklace loop is adorned with a lotus-shaped faience pendant decorated with three red pearls on the lower part. Faience beads were used in everyday and funerary jewellery. Strung with modern thread.
Size: 330mm x 23mm; Weight: 12g
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; previously in a collection of a North London gentleman; formerly in a collection of Mrs B. Ellison, a deceased former member of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, bought from the 1940s, Cairo and London.
An Egyptian necklace composed of dozens of faience beads in seeds and tube forms. The colours range from white, to green, to pale red. The necklace loop is adorned with a lotus-shaped faience pendant decorated with three red pearls on the lower part. Faience beads were used in everyday and funerary jewellery. Strung with modern thread.
Size: 330mm x 23mm; Weight: 12g
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; previously in a collection of a North London gentleman; formerly in a collection of Mrs B. Ellison, a deceased former member of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, bought from the 1940s, Cairo and London.
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EGYPTIAN FAIENCE NECKLACE WITH LOTUS AMULET
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