Ancient Black Glass Bead with White Florescent Swirls - Rita Okrent Collection (AG076e)

Ancient Black Glass Bead with White Florescent Swirls - Rita Okrent Collection (AG076e)Lovely early Islamic ancient glass bead with gorgeous sparkly swirls. Sourced by Rita in the 1980's or early 1990's. Likely to have been found in Lebanon, Israel, Jordan or Egypt. Measures 12mm x 16mm. This is part of a large group of ancient glass beads that haven't been listed in a long time, and had less than optimal photography when they were listed, due to limited digital photography technology in 1999, when the original Rita Okrent website was

Purchased in 1993

Collector Item 172b

Priced per group

800+ parts silver

Includes a few vessel pendants

67 beads on strand

Ancient Islamic or Roman-era Glass bead

7 cm at widest point

Carved wood sceptor of a man with a long face

Rita traveled to China when it first opened up in the late 1970's and again in the mid-1980's and picked up many wonderful items during those trips

This is an old mixed strand that was put together from beads in Rita's design room

Vintage brass seed or heishi beads from the African Trade