Asta Bidspirit | PHOENICIAN GLASS PASTE BEAD  4th


PHOENICIAN GLASS PASTE BEAD  4th - 3rd centuries BC  height cm 3  Rod-formed glass bead decorated with three opaque white and orange faces bordered above and below by two rows of blobs. Brownish weathering-film, some pitting. Provenance. English private collection; in the collection of O. Burchard, Zurich, until 1983; formerly part of the collection of M. Hess, Basel - Hotel Jura.