Small Wonders: Early Gems and Jewels
Small Wonders: Early Gems and Jewels
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
TWO EGYPTIAN FAIENCE BEAD NECKLACES, NEW KINGDOM, 1554-1075 B.C., AND LATER
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July 9, 12:10 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from a Swiss Private Collection
TWO EGYPTIAN FAIENCE BEAD NECKLACES, NEW KINGDOM, 1554-1075 B.C., AND LATER
the smaller composed of poppy-seed and other pendants, interspersed with diminutive disc beads; the larger necklace with a variety of faience beads in shades of turquoise blue.
Length 70 and 41 cm.
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Carl Leonhardt Burckhardt (b. 1902, Basel, d. 1965, Alexandria)
thence by descent
Cf. Petrie, Amulets, no. 70g, pl. IV (https://archive.org/details/amuletsa00petrrich/page/n83/mode/2up).