Spacer Bead

Description This gold profiled tube served as a spacer on a necklace (similar to Walters 57.1600) to keep pendants separate from one another. The smooth areas seem to have been worked on a lathe; the patterns are chased. No seams are visible.

Exhibitions

• Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters