"Ethnic Choker Necklace With Rows Of Beads, Tubes, Colored Stones & Carved Bone Bars"
ETHNIC JEWELRY / TRIBAL ARTSuperb and incredible necklace made up of 29 rows of carved and polished multi-colored stones mini tubes shape beads, and some in brass.
The tribal jewel is punctuated vertically by 10 thin large carved bone bars to give a certain rigidity to the whole.
Mounted on rope and large round closing carved bone button also, with a very beautiful patina.
I don't know its origin and provenance but it comes from the private Spanish collection of ethnic jewellery of a woman antics dealer who has traveled all over the world and brought back many pieces to Europe.
Sizes
Around 44cm high by 35 cm wide
Superb overall patina, for the finely carved stems and the bone button, but also the beads, largely irregular in length or diameter, shape and or polished.
This piece is part of a private Spanish collection (Georgio VERDALLE , who was antics dealer in San Francisco with a shop names "Tribal Bazar") of 15 pieces of similar provenance, purchased locally (mainly in Pakistan and Afghanistan), although this necklace seems very different to me from the other pieces) and brought back to Europe in the 1970s. Please check last photo for an overview
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