Roman Period Gold and Glass Bracelet

Mid-1st century BC-2nd century AD. A restrung bracelet composed of gold and glass beads, overlapping terminals forming an ellipsoidal openwork bezel; sheet-gold beads with repoussé border and central dome and open back; glass beads of facetted, biconical, annular and barrel shapes in a variety of blues, greens, 'blacks' and 'whites', including lustrous examples; wire hoop. See The British Museum, museum number 1894,1101.155, for similar gold beads. 10.12 grams, 73mm (3"). Property of a London gentleman; before that in the private collection of a Kensington collector; previously in the collection of Mrs Petra Schamelman, Breitenbach, Germany; acquired from the collection of Fernand Adda, formed in the 1920s.
Condition Report: Fine condition.