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Bead necklace

Greek
Hellenistic Period
3rd century B.C.

Medium/Technique Gold, glass paste
Dimensions Length: 23.5 cm.
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number01.8158
NOT ON VIEW

DescriptionGold wire links with 29 small glass beads at intervals. One end of the clasp a cylinder of open filigree work, which is built up of two rings of roundels filled with five-petaled rosettes. Collars of filigree, apparently ancient, are at either side of the roundel zone. The other end has a simple hook (probably modern, as well as the ends of the cylinder).
ProvenanceBy 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: W. Rome's Sale lot 479.); December 1901: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren