中东 Terracotta 双碗,公元前一千年。 10.5 厘米长。
编号 82710529
西亚 金 蓝色玻璃珠和玛瑙吊坠 (没有保留价)
编号 82710529
西亚 金 蓝色玻璃珠和玛瑙吊坠 (没有保留价)
A Western Asiatic gold pendant, featuring a triangular body with two agate dangles and three blue glass beads. The piece displays a mirrored decorative pattern, repeated on both its front and back. This is comprised of a triangular bezel embellished with gold granules around its perimeter and two additional small rings of granules to its base vertices. The bezel would have likely been set with stones. There is a loop attached to each of the small rings, from which a spherical banded agate bead dangles. To the top, there is a suspension loop which extends as a pin for attachment to the bezel and holding three small glass beads of contrasting shades of blue in place, in the arrangement of two darker rounded ones enclosing a brighter cylindrical one in between.
Jewellery played an important role across many Near Eastern civilisations. Gold necklaces, rings, earrings and bracelets would have been worn in everyday life but also buried with the deceased.
Measurements: Circa L 3cm x W 1cm
Weight: 1.44g
Provenance: Private collection, Japanese gentleman (deceased).