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Free Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish Splendid. Delicate, Brightly ... moreColored 3,000 Year Old Ancient Egyptian Faience Disc Beads on 14kt French Hook Earrings. CLASSIFICATION: Eighteen Ancient Egyptian silica ceramic/glass(faience” primitive silica disc beads. Contemporary french hooks and straight pins. ATTRIBUTION: Ancient Egypt. 20th Dynasty, about 11th century B.C. SIZE: Faience disc beads are between two and five millimeters in diameter; and between one and two diameters in thickness. CONDITION: Excellent. Unbroken beads. Brightly colored, with intact and thick glaze, well preserved. DETAIL: A pair of earrings necklace composed of bright colored ancient Egyptian beads constructed of faience. A primitive silica ceramic, and constructed of 14kt gold fill french hooks and straight pins. These brightly colored faience beads are quite uncommon– not the ordinary dull tan or brown color of ordinary uncolored crushed silica. We had a very small quantity of these beads available to us. We mounted the beads onto high quality– not cheap gold plated– rather high quality french hooks. This is first-quality jewelry designed to last years and years. Not cheap costume jewelry. If you prefer, we could remount the faience beads onto sterling silver french hooks. CONSTRUCTION: Faience. A primitive form of ceramic, was the ancient forerunner of modern glass, and was used by the Ancient Egyptians as far back as 3000 B.C. to fashion various amulets, beads, and other items of personal adornment. Most amulet/necklaces were both worn on a daily basis for protection, as well as buried with the dead to afford protection in the journey from this life to the next. Some bead necklaces were purely items of personal adornment, as these might have been so worn. Faience was produced by crushing quartz mixed with copper, and made into a paste. The paste was then placed in a mold, and then fired. The quartz would fuse, and the copper would give the resu
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$9.99 Shipping Location: Ivanhoe, Australia Date: - 1720. Among the most popular works in the early part of the eighteenth century were those by John Senex, and John Owen and Emanuel Bowen, followed ... moreby Daniel Paterson, William Faden and, at the end of the century, by John Gary, the most popular of all.
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$6.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States Coins are among the most important sources of information for the Anglo-Saxon period. Written by one of the foremost experts on Anglo-Saxon coins, this ... morebook provides an overview of Anglo-Saxon coins in their historical context, drawing on recent finds as well as famous treasures to provide an authoritative account of current interpretations.
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$11.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States A fabulous reference! The only complete hieroglyphic dictionary! 28,000 hieroglyphic words translated including usage and historical information. 60,000 ... moreword English to Egyptian glossary! Reference alphabets or syllabaries for Coptic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic, Amharic and Persian cuneiform are also here.
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$23.05 Shipping Location: SHREWSBURY, United Kingdom A fine copper engraved original early 17th century antique county map of Westmorland, England (now part of Cumbria). A lovely map enhanced with attractive ... morelater hand colouring. Engraved by William Kip after Christopher Saxton.
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$55.99 Shipping Condition: Used Location: Lummi Island, United States CLASSIFICATION : Sancai (“Three-Color”) Glazed Porcelain Wall Plaque. These were white porcelain bodies painted with underglaze blue and then covered ... morewith a transparent glaze before firing. Not only produced in vast quantities for imperial use, they were also exported as far as Turkey.
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$62.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The Manchus retained many institutions of Ming and earlier Chinese Dynasties, continuing Confucian court practices and temple rituals. The Manchu emperors ... moresupported Chinese literary and historical projects of enormous scope.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish Time-Life The Emergence of Man ... moreSeries- The Metalsmiths. NOTE: We have 75.000 books in our library, almost 10,000 different titles. Odds are we have other copies of this same title in varying conditions, some less expensive, some better condition. We might also have different editions as well(some paperback, some hardcover, oftentimes international editions) If you don’t see what you want, please contact us and ask. We’re happy to send you a summary of the differing conditions and prices we may have for the same title. CONDITION: Light shelf wear. Otherwise in Very Good to Like New condition. Seemingly never read, at worst flipped through a few times. Pages are pristine; clean, unmarked, unmutilated, tightly bound. Satisfaction unconditionally guaranteed. In stock, ready to ship. No disappointments, no excuses. PROMPT SHIPPING! HEAVILY PADDED, DAMAGE-FREE PACKAGING! PLEASE SEE IMAGES BELOW FOR JACKET DESCRIPTION(S) AND FOR PAGES OF PICTURES FROM INSIDE OF BOOK. DESCRIPTION: Hardcover: 160 pages. Publisher: Time-Life Books Inc; 1974) The“Emergence of Man” series was released in the mid-1970’s. Each volume undertakes to describe the major events that happened in one specific time period in the development of mankind’s civilization(s) The volumes are richly illustrated. And designed as an introduction to the time frame covered. Especially compelling are the artists interpretations or recreations of what various ancient civilizations would have looked like- their architecture, homes, monuments, cities, daily life, jewelry, food, family life, dwellings, occupations, etc. As just one instance, the ruins of Babylon and Ur, Athens and Rome hint at the incredible richness of those fabled cities. The artist’s recreations in this series are simply mind-numbing. This is as close as you can be to actually having been there. The entire series is truly a magnificent introduction to the history of th
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$15.00 Shipping Location: Cyprus Title: Tabula Itineraria a Sues usque ad Dsjaebbel el Mokatteb et Montem Sinai. Published, S.J. Baalde Amsterdam 1774. For the complete Map and Print ... morecollection see our online site. Image app.: 28.5 x 18 cm.
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$10.00 Shipping Location: Cyprus This edition, revised an updated by Dezauche in 1789. Image app. 64 x 47.5 cm. Sheet app.: 77 x 56 cm.
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$15.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Renaissance jewels are among the most alluring manifestations of an age that experienced the widening of old-established horizons, from the Old World ... moreto the New. Dr. Yvonne Hackenbroch's seminal and comprehensive work, Renaissance Jewelry, originally published in 1979, established her reputation as the world's foremost expert in the field.
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Free Shipping Condition: Pre-owned Location: Kağithane-Gürsel, Turkey Kozak rugs are a treasure trove of traditional Turkish design, and this rug is no exception. The large central diamond designs, for instance, are derived ... morefrom a wreath motif seen in Ottoman court prayer rugs dating back to the 17th century.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The history of this form of painting is as old as the civilization itself. The more prominent among the various schools in Indian Miniature Paintings ... moreare the Jain paintings, Rajasthani, Mughal, and the Pahari schools.
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Free Shipping Condition: Used Location: United Kingdom Irish Sterling Silver Potato Ring / Dish Ring - Antique 1932. This antique potato ring is an exceptional gauge of silver, exceptional quality and is in ... moreexceptional condition. This exceptional antique Irish sterling silver dish ring has a circular waisted form.
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$71.69 Shipping Location: NORWICH, United Kingdom Jingdezhen kilns made porcelain over two millennia, since the Han Dynasty. Jingdezhen kilns supplied the most artistically advanced ceramics to the world ... morefor centuries. Blue and white porcelain was the most famous product of Jingdezhen, and reached the height of its technical excellence in the early Ching Dynasty.
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$15.00 Shipping Location: Cyprus Title: Nassoviae Principatus et ad cum spectantes Ditiones…. Map maker: Georg Matthäus Seutter (1647–1756) one of the most important and prolific German ... moremap publishers of the past 18th century. Published by August Vindel in Augsburg 1741.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Ferndale, United States Authoritative and eminently readable, this book will entertain as much as it will educate. Full coverage is given to all aspects of life in a thousand-year ... moreperiod which saw the creation of western civilization: from the empires and kingdoms of Charlemagne, the Byzantines, and the Hundred Years War, to the ideals of the crusades, the building of great cathedrals and the social catastrophe of the Black Death; the cultural worlds of chivalric knights, popular festivals, and new art forms.
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$16.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Chinese Ceramics: From the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty by Laurie Barnes and Pengbo Ding. Publisher: Yale University (2010). Pages: 608. ... moreThe creation of ceramic ware holds a special and very important place among the many arts and inventions that characterize Chinese culture, society, and civilization.
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$4.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World by Asa G. Hilliard III, Larry Williams (Editor), and Nia Damali (Editors). Publisher: Blackwood ... morePress (2012). Pages: 53. An ancient literary work attributed to Ptahhotep, a vizier under King Isesi of the Egyptian Fifth Dynasty (ca. 2414-2375 BC).
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$65.00 Shipping Location: Chicago, United States Among the many kinds of Chinese ceramics that were exported is a variety of unrefined, stoneware storage jars. These robust jars have bold, incised or ... morerelief decoration under different kinds of glazes, principally olive green, golden brown, brown, or almost black.
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$6.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Ferndale, United States Pages: 148. These include the Golden Madonna, a silver crucifix, a pair of richly decorated silver candlesticks, and sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, ... moreall of which will be included in the exhibition.
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