13 Apr 2011
10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street
Antiquities including Property from the Collection of Sir Daniel Donohue
Back to auction 18817
Antiquities including Property from the Collection of Sir Daniel Donohue
Back to auction 18817
An necklace of Eastern Mediterranean glass 'eye' beads
Circa 6th Century B.C. - 1st Century A.D.
Composed of approximately thirty-nine yellow spherical beads with blue eyes and fifteen turquoise spherical beads with blue eyes, interspersed with other glass and tubular beads, some bone, with a glazed composition pendant, re-strung, 18in (46cm) long, including some later beads
Circa 6th Century B.C. - 1st Century A.D.
Composed of approximately thirty-nine yellow spherical beads with blue eyes and fifteen turquoise spherical beads with blue eyes, interspersed with other glass and tubular beads, some bone, with a glazed composition pendant, re-strung, 18in (46cm) long, including some later beads
Sold for
£1,080
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
By descent from the Belgian archaeologist Eleonore Bille-de-Mot (1903-1987). She was assistant to the Belgian Egyptologist, Jean Capart and worked with him in Egypt. His excavations included Tell Heou (1927) and El Kab (1935, 1938, 1945-46).
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