Asta Bidspirit | PHOENICIAN GLASS PASTE BEAD  4th


PHOENICIAN GLASS PASTE BEAD  4th - 3rd centuries BC  height cm 3,2  Rod-formed glass bead decorated with eyes each with translucent dark blue pupils and opaque white eyeballs with stripes in translucent brown round the inside. Crackle, minor restorations and 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.