A gold, faience and enamel necklace by Natalia Josca

A gold, faience and enamel necklace by Natalia Josca, the ancient Egyptian faience of Mut (Ptolemaic Period, 303 - 30BC ), in a beaded gold setting, between polychrome enamel lotus flower panels, to the multi strand woven gold chain, with a polychrome enamel lotus flower S link clasp, engraved NJ and 22K, 38.5cm long, 144.8g gross

Originally exhibited in the Golden Worlds Exhibition at the Tambaran Gallery, New York November 1989 - January 1990

This necklace has been illustrated in the press several times: in the American publications, Ornament Magazine in an interview with Natalia Josca by Barbara Hamaker in 1991; and later in Adornment Magazine (The Magazine of Jewelry & Related Arts), in an interview given by Natalia Josca about her jewellery in 2005. It was also illustrated in an Italian article titled 'A Scuola Di Gioielli' by Rosanna Arzone, about the Jewelry Arts Institute in New York where Natalia Josca had studied.

From the collection of Natalia Josca