古埃及，晚期 埃及彩陶、石榴石和红玉髓珠项链和耳环

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Custom-made necklace and matching pair of drop earrings, composed with Egyptian faience, garnet and carnelian beads. The authentic ancient beads are restrung with modern materials and wearable. The necklace is centred by a larger oval orange bead flanked by rounded beads, while the earrings echo the same colour scheme in a coordinated suspended design.

Necklace:
Total length: ± 46 cm
Central bead: ± 9,9 x 15,9 mm

Earrings:
Total length: ± 56,2 mm
Diameter beads: ± 7,9 mm maximum

Certificate:
Certificate of Authenticity (PDF) is available upon request for all lots with a hammer price of €100 or higher.

Condition:
Good condition and wearable. The ancient beads are restrung and combined with modern gold-plated spacer beads and fittings. Minor surface irregularities and signs of wear consistent with age and use.

Provenance:
Composed of beads originating from various old collections, acquired in the UK between 2016–2024.

Character:
Each ancient bead displays subtle variations and signs of age, reflecting its long history and adding to the unique charm of every composition.

Please note:
Photographed in a professional studio against a deep black background to enhance contrast and detail. Studio lighting and individual screen settings may slightly affect the appearance of colours.

Historical background:
-> Carnelian: The Egyptians believed carnelian had magical powers; it was believed it could ward off evil, help the blood circulation and make the skin look healthy and youthful.
Carnelian was known as the 'Blood of Isis' (Goddess of nature and guide of souls to the Underworld). Accordingly, a carnelian amulet called a 'thet' was placed on mummies to assist the dead in their journey to the afterlife.
The Egyptian faith in carnelian was so strong that, along with turquoise and lapis lazuli, it was the most used stone in ancient Egyptian jewellery.

-> Garnets: Egyptians were particularly fond of garnets and referred to them as 'the symbol of life'. Garnets were placed within tombs as prized possessions to carry into the afterlife. Garnet was the gemstone of Sekhmet, the Egyptian Goddess of War and Healing.
Garnets never fell out of fashion and were also favoured by the Romans for signet rings and with the clergy and nobility in the Middle Ages.

-> Faience was very popular and widely used in ancient Egypt. The earliest evidence of faience production was discovered in a 7500 year old workshop near the temple in Abydos. The production and style of faience changed through Egyptian history.

Different colourants were used for aesthetic and symbolic purposes, or to imitate the more expensive and rare semi-precious gemstones like turquoise, carnelian, lapis lazuli, garnets or obsidian. Egyptians believed that faience in the colour of gemstones had the same properties. Red had protective powers, dark lapis blue gave strength, courage and wisdom, bright turquoise was associated with fertility and offered protection to the wearer.

As faience was more available than semi-precious gemstones it became a popular and widely used material for small objects like scarabs and other forms of amulets, beads, jewellery, small size statuettes, cosmetic vessels and ritual objects.

In ancient Egypt, faience objects were seen as magical, reflecting the eternal shimmer of the sun and infused with the powers of rebirth and sparkle with the brilliance of eternity.