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Egyptian Faience Beaded Bracelet - FJ.3739
Origin: Sinai, Egypt
Circa: 1600
BC
to 1100
BC
Collection: Jewelry
Medium: Faience/Gold
Additional Information: Sold
Location: United States
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| Description |
According to Egyptologists, such beads were
made on an axis, probably of thread, which
would burn up during firing, leaving a hole. Disc,
ring and tubular beads were made by coating the
axis with the unfired body-paste, rolling the
cylinder to an even diameter on a flat surface,
and then scoring it with a knife into sections of
the desired length. Other shapes, such _s ball
beads, were rolled between the hands and
perforated while still wet with a stiff point such
as a wire needle. The beads were then dried,
coated with glaze (if the glaze had not already
been mixed with the paste), and fired. The firing
process often gave the beads a beautiful
translucent quality. The majority of faience beads
are blue or green in color, but black, red, yellow
and white ones were also produced, especially in
the New Egyptian Kingdom. In the art of Ancient
Egypt, we see lovely women adorned with such
jewels. To wear these beads today is to follow in
the royal tradition of Nefertiti and Cleopatra.
- (FJ.3739)
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