This authentic African hand crafted, and also hand beaded ceramic seed bead multi strand necklace is in the Faience style of beaded jewelry that Cleopatra might have worn. This beautiful necklace is elegant and sexy when worn as a statement piece for costuming and even for every day high fashion. The imperfect rough cut of each bead gives it that rustic tribal appearance that says ethnic Africa all the way.

Although not true “ancient” Egyptian faience beads since they would be blue or green in color, these beautiful rich rust-orange colored ceramic beads are created and cut in much the same manner as in ancient times but using more modern bead making methods and glazes. Here’s an opportunity to accessorize your look just like the Queen of the Nile, or even the Queen of Zimbabwe.

Details: Coin Mixed Metal & Ceramic Beads and measures approximately 26” inches end-to-end with a 3-1/2” inch strand spread width in the center of the necklace and is in Excellent Condition. It consists of thirty strands of hand cut seed beads.

Egyptian faience is a sintered-quartz ceramic displaying surface vitrification (form of glass) which creates a bright luster of various blue-green colors. Having not been made from clay, it is often not classed as pottery. It is called "Egyptian faience" to distinguish it from faience, the tin-glazed pottery associated with Faenza in northern Italy. Egyptian faience, locally produced and exported from Egypt, occurred widely in the ancient world and is well known from Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean and in northern Europe as far away as Scotland. Faience has been defined as the first high technology ceramic, to emphasize its status as an artificial medium, rendering it effectively a precious stone. Egyptian faience is non-clay based ceramic composed of crushed quartz or sand, with small amounts of calcite lime and a mixture of alkalis.