EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with capriciously shaped flowers, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace, Lille lace. The repeating pattern consists of a capriciously shaped flower without a stem, which occupies almost the total width of the strip. Along the bottom...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with two zigzag bands and fan blades, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace: lace. The repeating pattern consists of two parallel zigzag paths with a center line of concatenated fine diamonds made in form. Right below each zigzag to...
EditorialGlass eye bead, Late Classical or Early Hellenistic, 4th?3rd century B.C., Phoenician or Carthaginian, Glass; rod-formed and applied, Height: 13/16 x 1 in. (2.1 x 2.6 cm), Glass, Uncertain color, with opaque yellow and white, and translucent blue., Cyl...
EditorialGlass face bead, Late Classical or Hellenistic, end of 5th?mid-2nd century B.C., Phoenician or Carthaginian, Glass; rod-formed and applied, Other: 1 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. (3.2 x 2.8 cm), Glass, Semi-opaque turquoise blue, with additions in opaque white and y...
EditorialGlass eye bead, 6th?4th century B.C., Phoenician, Cypriot, Glass; rod-formed and trailed, L.: 3/8 in. (1 cm), Glass, Stratified double eye bead; two sets of four eyes. Opaque turquoise blue; eyes in opaque white with circle and central dot in transluce...
EditorialGlass face bead, Late Classical, mid-4th?3rd century B.C., Phoenician or Carthaginian, Glass; rod-formed and trailed, H.: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm), Glass, Translucent dark cobalt blue, with opaque turquoise blue, white, and yellow, and translucent cobalt bl...
EditorialGlass eye bead, Late Classical or Early Hellenistic, 4th?3rd century B.C., Phoenician or Carthaginian, Glass; rod-formed and applied, Height: 13/16 x 1 in. (2.1 x 2.6 cm), Glass, Uncertain color, with opaque yellow and white, and translucent blue., Cyl...
EditorialGlass face bead, Late Classical or Hellenistic, end of 5th?mid-2nd century B.C., Phoenician or Carthaginian, Glass; rod-formed and applied, Other: 1 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. (3.2 x 2.8 cm), Glass, Semi-opaque turquoise blue, with additions in opaque white and y...
EditorialHelmet Mask, before 1880, Cameroon, Grassfields region, Bamum kingdom, Wood, copper, glass beads, raffia, cowrie shells, H. 26 x W. 14 x D. 10 3/4 in. (66 x 35.6 x 27.3 cm), Beads-Sculpture, In the socially and politically stratified polities of the Gr...
EditorialGlass eye bead, 6th?4th century B.C., Phoenician, Cypriot, Glass; rod-formed and trailed, L.: 3/8 in. (1 cm), Glass, Stratified double eye bead; two sets of four eyes. Opaque turquoise blue; eyes in opaque white with circle and central dot in transluce...
EditorialGlass face bead, Late Classical, mid-4th?3rd century B.C., Phoenician or Carthaginian, Glass; rod-formed and trailed, H.: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm), Glass, Translucent dark cobalt blue, with opaque turquoise blue, white, and yellow, and translucent cobalt bl...