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Banded Agate Necklace
Banded Agate Necklace
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Achaemenid Persian period, 4th century B.C.
In the Louvre Museum Collection, Department of Oriental Antiquities and developed for the Réunion des Musées Nationaux. The extraordinary variety of beads on this long necklace illustrates the taste for polychromy so typical of oriental jewelry, which reached its peak during the Persian period. Craftsmen combined dozens of different stones producing contrasts in colors and punctuated by gold beads formed of rows of fine granules, a characteristic of the Achaemenid period. Materials: jade, red and black banded agate, gold finish pewter granulation beads, S-hook closure Length: 22" made in USA
In the Louvre Museum Collection, Department of Oriental Antiquities and developed for the Réunion des Musées Nationaux. The extraordinary variety of beads on this long necklace illustrates the taste for polychromy so typical of oriental jewelry, which reached its peak during the Persian period. Craftsmen combined dozens of different stones producing contrasts in colors and punctuated by gold beads formed of rows of fine granules, a characteristic of the Achaemenid period. Materials: jade, red and black banded agate, gold finish pewter granulation beads, S-hook closure Length: 22" made in USA
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