STUNNING LATE GRAECO-PHOENICIAN NECKLACE WITH POLYCHROME GLASS EYE

Ca. 500 - 300 BC. A polychrome glass necklace composed of turquoise blue spacer beads interspersed with larger globular eye beads in blue, white, yellow, green and black. The larger beads are decorated with concentric stratified eyes and applied trailed motifs, with numerous blue drop-shaped pendants suspended at intervals along the strand. The necklace is finished with a gold hook clasp. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 74.51.316. Size: 230/460mm x 12mm; Weight: 20g Provenance: Prince Collection, 1990s–2014; Ex. Christie's, 14 April 2011, sale 6060, lot 345.

Estimate:$401.85

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