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Lot 190

An Eastern Mediterranean core-formed triple-headed face bead

1 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Eastern Mediterranean core-formed triple-headed face bead
Circa 5th-3rd Century B.C.
With a turquoise ground, two faces in opaque white and one in yellow, with applied blue eyebrows, blue and white eyes, white ears with yellow and white earrings, a row of applied yellow and white balls above and below, 31mm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Acquired from Lennox Gallery, London, in 1998.
R. Bussey Collection, UK, circa 1969.

Literature:
Cf. S. M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, 1979, pp. 110-112, nos. 222-224.

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