EGYPTIAN FAIENCE NECKLACE WITH LOTUS AMULET

Ptolemaic Period, Ca. 332 - 30 BC.
An Egyptian necklace composed of dozens of faience beads in seeds and tube forms. The colours range from white, to green, to pale red. The necklace loop is adorned with a lotus-shaped faience pendant decorated with three red pearls on the lower part. Faience beads were used in everyday and funerary jewellery. Strung with modern thread.
Size: 330mm x 23mm; Weight: 12g
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; previously in a collection of a North London gentleman; formerly in a collection of Mrs B. Ellison, a deceased former member of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, bought from the 1940s, Cairo and London.