Glass eye bead
Unknown Artist
Dark blue, with additions in opaque white and cobalt blue.
Spherical shape with large vertical hole.
Twenty-four eyes in six diagonal rows of four.
Intact; dulling, pitting, weathering, and slight iridescence.
Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
c. 4th century B.C.
Glass; rod-formed
0.7 x 0.9cm
17.194.807
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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