Elamite Silver Pendant Necklace. 2nd-early 1st millennium B.C. and later. A restrung designer bead necklace with silver pendant composed of carnelian facetted biconical beads interspersed with lapis lazuli spacer beads in the upper part, the lower part with two strings composed of facetted silver beads, one with square recesses, facetted stone beads and a large silver bulbous bodied ribbed pendant decorated with columns of chevrons and dashed lines, a fan-shaped finial and ribbed suspension loop. See Maxwell-Hyslop, K.R., Western Asiatic Jewellery, c.3000-612 BC, London, 1971, p.8-10, and pl.12, for bead types typical of this period, examples of which can be seen in the necklace offered here; see fig.127, for comparable flared terminal on a different type of jewellery item. 113 grams, 48 cm (19 in.) From a private family collection formed in London from the mid 1980s to early 1990s. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate no.10958-179746.

Fine condition.