A Roman Splashed Mosaic Glass Bead Necklace

Circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D.

Length 17 inches (43.18 cm).

Property from a Brooklyn Private Collection

Composed of twenty-three globular mosaic beads interspersed with twenty-two red glass spacer beads.

Provenance:

Aphrodite Ancient Art, New York, 2013 (Art of the Ancients: A Selection of Ancient Art, Vol. I, no. 37)

Private Collection, New York, acquired from the above.

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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.

Jewelry Through the Ages: Ancient to Neoclassical

A Roman Splashed Mosaic Glass Bead Necklace

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