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Lot 125*

A Western Asiatic carnelian bead necklace

28 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,875 inc. premium

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A Western Asiatic carnelian bead necklace
Circa 2nd-1st Millennium B.C.
Composed of faceted biconical and cylindrical beads interspersed with seventeen pendant beads, re-strung, 41cm long

Footnotes

Provenance:
with Sarkis & Haddad, Beirut.
Private collection, New York, acquired from the above in 1971; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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