Context (Other)
Catalogue card: 'Very fine specimens of these eyes are in the Bishop Whyte [sic] Collection at Toronto'

[Possibly refers to the Bishop White Gallery of Chinese Temple Art in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Katrina Dring, 27/10/2023]]
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Collected by Orvar Karlbeck on behalf of the 1934 Karlbeck Syndicate. Louis Clarke was an investor in the Syndicate and donated his allocation to the museum in 1935. See archive for report (BR2/1/3). 
Event Date 1934
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Orvar Karlbeck (1934) description for 1935.280-285: 'Eye beads, of dark blue glass with the usual inlay of 'eyes'.' 
Event Date 1934
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Bead. Elaborate pattern with bright yellow in design. In this bead the yellow has corroded to pale yellow ochre. Elliptical eyes with large circular eyes inside the ellipse and seven small eyes inside the large circular eyes.'
Event Date 1935
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Originally blue glass, with lighter blue eyes. Almost broken in two across the hole.
Event Date 13/7/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (References)
Jurgens, Valerie. (2012). The Karlbeck Syndicate 1930-1934: Collecting and Scholarship on Chinese Art in Sweden and Britain. Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing 
Event Date 2012
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Composite eye bead of blue and yellow glass. Ten composite eyes of one yellow eye surrounded by six blue eyes with a yellow outer ring; additional small blue eyes and yellow triangles, as well as rings of eyes around the hole at either end. Cracked in half but reconstructed.
Event Date 27/10/2023
Author: Katrina Dring