A Canaanite Gold and Carnelian Bead Necklace

Circa Mid 2nd Millennium B.C.

Length 17 3/4 inches (45.09 cm).

Property from a Brooklyn Private Collection

Composed of a central gold crescent pendant with multi-faceted carnelian bead, and sixteen tubular carnelian beads, separated by fourteen carnelian rounded beads, strung with a modern gold hoop and loop closure.

Provenance:

Private Collection, New York, acquired in the 1960s, thence by decent.

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Mr. Coley joined the Antiquities department in 2021 after working as Managing Director in the Ancient Art department at Colnaghi, the world’s oldest commercial art gallery, where he helped to establish the Ancient Art department and launched Colnaghi New York in 2017. Prior to Colnaghi, Mr. Coley was in the Greek and Roman Art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Coley holds a B.A. from the University of Miami and an M.A. in Art Market from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and he earned an art-appraisal certificate from New York University.

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Jewelry Through the Ages: Ancient to Neoclassical

A Canaanite Gold and Carnelian Bead Necklace

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