Bidspirit auction | COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN GLASS BEAD

COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN GLASS BEAD NECKLACES - EX CHRISTIE'S - New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Amarna Period, Reign of Akhenaten, Ca. 1351 - 1334 BC (two necklaces with core-formed beads); Late Middle Kingdom, Ca. 1850 - 1750 BC (dark glass necklace); Late Period, Ca. 664 - 332 BC (uraeus).A collection of three glass necklaces, including, from left to right: a necklace of alternating core-formed beads with brown and white trail decoration and plain elongated amber glass beads, with one section composed only of the latter; another necklace comprising dark globular glass beads interspersed with smaller spherical spacers; and a third comprising short barrel-shaped beads with white and blue trail decoration separated by small blue glass beads, together with a blue, white and amber glass uraeus.Size: 21-250mm x 5-11mm; Weight: 60g.Provenance: Prince Collection, 1990s-2014; Ex Christie's, 2 May 2013 Lot 34; Ex Christie's, London, Antiquities Including Property from the Collection of Baron Edouard Jean Empain, 14 April 2011, lot 49; Previously in the Baron Empain (1852-1929) collection, Belgium. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.For similar see: S. M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1979, p. 78, cat. no. 124; National Museums Liverpool, Accession number 49.47.546.