A Near Eastern Carnelian and Quartz Bead Necklace

Circa 200 B.C.-200 A.D.

Length 21 inches (53.34 cm).

Property from the Collection of Curator and Scholar Sidney M. Goldstein

Provenance:

Acquired by the present owner from Anavian Gallery, New York, 1974.

For a parallel example at the Corning Museum of Art, see a Necklace of Beads (Inv. no, 74.7.5).

Dr. Sidney M. Goldstein is widely considered one of the foremost scholars in the study of ancient glass. After working as a curator at the Corning Museum of Glass from 1973 to 1983, he served as Associate Director and Curator of Ancient and Islamic Art at the St. Louis Art Museum until his retirement in 2009. Dr. Goldstein has authored and co-authored numerous publications including Glass: from Sasanian antecedents to European imitations (2005), and Pre-Roman and early Roman glass in the Corning Museum of Glass (1979).

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A Near Eastern Carnelian and Quartz Bead Necklace

Circa 200 B.C.-200 A.D.

Length 21 inches (53.34 cm).

Property from the Collection of Curator and Scholar Sidney M. Goldstein

Provenance:

Acquired by the present owner from Anavian Gallery, New York, 1974.

For a parallel example at the Corning Museum of Art, see a Necklace of Beads (Inv. no, 74.7.5).

Jewelry Through the Ages: Ancient to Neoclassical

A Near Eastern Carnelian and Quartz Bead Necklace

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A Near Eastern Carnelian and Quartz Bead Necklace