Near Eastern Gold, Lapis and Electrum Disk Beads

strung as a necklace with an 18-karat gold S-hook clasp

 

 

3rd - 2nd Millennia BC

 

Necklace Length: 34 cm.       (13 3/8 in.)

 

ex: private American collection, early 1990's. Previously a private English collection

 

Liu, Robert ; A Universal Aesthetic. Collectable Beads (Vista, 1995) 

 

 

 

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