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Faceted Barrel Beads, ca. 1390-1353 B.C.E.. Faience, Diam. of bead 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (0.7 x 37.5 cm)
as mounted: 7 × 6 × 1/4 in. (17.8 × 15.2 × 0.6 cm). Gift of Mrs. Lawrence Coolidge and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, and the Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 48.66.39. Creative Commons-BY.
Although faience appears in various colors, blue was the most common. The blue of lapis lazuli was so valued that it was imitated in this more affordable form while retaining the same symbolic meaning. From its early manufacture, faience was shaped into beads, with the finest faience work appearing in the New Kingdom.