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全部拍賣 / Jewelry & Gems / Sumerian Stone, Shell & Faience Bead Necklaces - Six Black & White Strands
Mesopotamia, Sumerian. A cascade of six strands gathers thousands of small disc and tubular beads into a rhythmic interplay of slate gray and chalky white. The beads, ancient in origin, are worked from steatite and other stone, shell, and faience, each one drilled by hand and worn smooth across the millennia. Strung on modern cords for contemporary wear, the necklaces preserve the alternating dark and light cadence that once adorned the inhabitants of southern Mesopotamia, where bead ornaments signaled status, devotion, and the eye for pattern that runs through Sumerian craft. The monochrome palette lends the ensemble a quiet austerity, a graphic counterpoint to the lapis and carnelian of grander Sumerian jewelry, and a testament to the enduring human delight in stringing small beautiful things in measured succession. Faience, one of the materials represented here, is among the earliest synthetic substances made by human hands: a ground quartz paste that vitrifies in the kiln to yield a hard, lustrous bead, prized across the ancient Near East long before true glass. Steatite (soapstone) was favored for its softness, easily carved and bored before hardening, and could be glazed to mimic costlier stones. Beads such as these were produced in quantity throughout Sumerian cities, strung in multiple rows to encircle the neck and wrists of the living and to accompany the dead, as the great cemetery at Ur famously revealed. Item # 203214
估價:$250
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