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Egyptian Faience Beads Set In 18k Gold Pendant - FJ.1218
Origin: Sinai, Egypt
Circa: 1600
BC
to 1100
BC
Collection: Egyptian
Medium: Faience-Gold
Additional Information: sold
Location: United States
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Most ancient Egyptian beads were made of
faience, a glass-composite glaze which was
introduced as early as the Pre-Dynastic period.
According to Egyptologists, most 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 as 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,
coating 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.
- (FJ.1218)
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