Ancient Faience, from Persia, Long Strand with 112 Beads Many wonderful Shapes
Ancient Faience, from Persia, Long Strand with 112 Beads Many wonderful Shapes
Ancient Faience, from Persia, Long Strand with 112 Beads Many wonderful Shapes
Ancient Faience, from Persia, Long Strand with 112 Beads Many wonderful Shapes

Ancient Faience, from Persia, Long Strand with 112 Beads Many wonderful Shapes

SKU: ORS-42
Sale price $750.00

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  • Ancient Iranian (Persian) faience, extra long strand with 112 beads mostly faience, a few might be carved bone, smallest about 4mm, largest pendants 28mm long
  • Many wonderful shapes and mini pendants
  • Made around 100 BC to 100 AD probably in or near Qom, where faience is still produced today as "donkey beads" to protect livestock from the "evil eye"
  • Faience, invented as early as 5000 BC, is the ancestor of glass. It was made from ground up quartz (aka sand), alkali, mineral colorants, especially copper, and water. This mixture was formed into beads and fired to the point that it fused together. During this process a surface glaze was formed (which is actually the earliest from of glass) usually in turquoise or blue. Other colors were developed later. The inner part of the bead or other object remained only partially fused.
  • Ancient faience making was important in Egypt, Mesopotamia (now Iraq w/ parts of Syria and Turkey) and Persia (Iran today).