Antique Egyptian faience necklace, based on Hyksos period (c1600BC), with Mummy Beads, Scarabs
Antique faience bead necklace based on designs from Ancient Egypt, Hyksos period, C 1600 BC. The scarabs are unique to funerary “mummy beads”.
This necklace was most likely made in Egypt to sell to American and European tourists during Egyptian Revival period from the 1880s to 1930s.
Faience beads are clay that was baked at high temperatures and "glazed" by minerals in the clay. Copper salts gave a blue color, cobalt provided an even darker blue, manganese produced shades of purple to black, iron created greenish hues, and other clays afforded yellows, ochre's and even pinks. Faience paste was also pressed in molds and baked to form amulets. Scarab beads were produced exclusively for funerary use and some mummies were buried with thousands of beads.
Necklace is 12.5” long.
-Information provided by Rare Coins & Classical Arts, in South Orange, NJ.
Antique faience bead necklace based on designs from Ancient Egypt, Hyksos period, C 1600 BC. The scarabs are unique to funerary “mummy beads”.
This necklace was most likely made in Egypt to sell to American and European tourists during Egyptian Revival period from the 1880s to 1930s.
Faience beads are clay that was baked at high temperatures and "glazed" by minerals in the clay. Copper salts gave a blue color, cobalt provided an even darker blue, manganese produced shades of purple to black, iron created greenish hues, and other clays afforded yellows, ochre's and even pinks. Faience paste was also pressed in molds and baked to form amulets. Scarab beads were produced exclusively for funerary use and some mummies were buried with thousands of beads.
Necklace is 12.5” long.
-Information provided by Rare Coins & Classical Arts, in South Orange, NJ.
