Bidspirit auction | WESTERN ASIATIC NECKLACE WITH LAPIS

WESTERN ASIATIC NECKLACE WITH LAPIS LAZULI AND GOLD BEADS - Ca. AD 1600 - 1800 A beaded necklace with intense blue ovoid lapis lazuli beads alternating with golden seed-shaped beads. Every three lapis lazuli beads there is one round gold bead. Restrung. Size: 220/440mm x 20mm; Weight: 40g 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.