**Originally Listed At $350**
Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A lovely necklace boasting dozens of fragmentary glass beads of opaque green, brown, black, yellow, and red colors. Most beads take on a rectangular form with some exhibiting rounded corners, protruding nodules, and some with marvered trails of additional glass. The necklace boasts a pair of strands which hang one above the other, and the central lozenge-shaped pendant is composed of vermilion-hued glass with yellow trails feathered along the midsection and ringed around the ends. Strung in modern times and capped with a gold-filled loop and lobster clasp, this is an attractive and wearable necklace ready for any occasion! Size (necklace): 20.375" L (51.8 cm); size of largest bead (red-and-yellow lozenge): 1.3" L x 0.55" W (3.3 cm x 1.4 cm).
Provenance: ex-Davis collection, Houston, Texas, acquired before 2013 from various auction houses in London and New York
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Condition
Strung in modern times and wearable as shown. Glass beads are ancient, and stringing and gold-filled components are modern. All glass beads are fragments of larger items and have minor abrasions, some with small nicks, and light weathering. Light earthen deposits throughout, and scattered areas of silvery and rainbow-hued iridescence.