COLLECTION OF PHOENICIAN MULTICOLOURED GLASS OBJECTS

Ca. 600 - 300 BC. A collection of seventeen beads and gaming tokens of spherical, lentoid and conical forms, executed in opaque and translucent glass. Several are decorated with applied yellow, white, or blue, forming eye motifs or irregular swirls. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 17.194.804. Size: 13-22mm x 11-21mm; Weight: 124g Provenance: Private UK collection; previously acquired on the Austrian art market in the 1980s.