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Large bead

Sales price $2,750.00
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Description

294EA
Large bead with mosaic eyes
3-1 century BC
Mediterranean region & Persia

Rod formed, wound green glass matrix. Twelve eyes of sliced mosaic cane with cross-section of alternative yellow, blue and white concentric canes around blue center. 
Extremely rare. Intact, very good condition. All eyes are intact.
Max diameter: 25 mm
Height:  19 mm

For similar beads see:
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1975, table 14: 45.
- Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011,  p. 171,  #210-17.
- Tombodama Art Museum, 1996, p.43 cat. 41 different color matrix.