The « NILE » Collection

The mighty Nile River, the longest in the world, is formed by the reunion of the Blue Nile and the White Nile. The river waters are green, blue, and brown.
The collection comprises 50 pieces in these 4 colors: white, green, blue, brown, with both modern and antique elements dominantly from Africa, as a reminder of the key role played by the Nile in trade with the African interior throughout history.
This collection of unique and numbered pieces was commissioned by the Mashrabia Art Gallery in Cairo and presented in December 2018.

La collection « Nil »

Le Nil, plus long fleuve du monde, est la réunion du Nil Bleu et du Nil blanc, ses eaux variant du vert au bleu et au brun.
Cette collection de 50 pièces aux seules 4 couleurs : le blanc, le bleu, le vert et le brun, est réalisée avec des perles modernes et des perles anciennes, principalement africaines, en rappel du rôle joué, si longtemps, par ce fleuve mythique dans les échanges avec l’intérieur de l’Afrique.
Cette collection de pièces uniques, numérotées, a été commanditée par la Galerie d’Art Mashrabia, au Caire et présentée en décembre 2018.

NILE 6 :
Green glass Hebron beads, late 18th to mid-19th century, malachite and African seed beads; silver. The Hebron glass industry was first established during the Roman empire.

NILE 5 :
Modern glass and turquoise disks, seed beads; mounted on rubber and ribbons.

NILE 10 :
Modern wooden, ceramic and turquoise beads. Cotton tassel.

NILE 17 :
Neolithic amazonite and crystal quartz beads, Bronze pendant likely to be from the Djenne-Djenno civilization – 8th to 14th century, Mali. Large blue beads likely to be late 19th century bohemian beads, small blue glass beads from Ghana. Mounted on leather.

NILE 26 :
Italian glass beads, mother of pearl, silver beads. Mounted on a silver chain with a silver clasp.

NILE 8 :
Glass beads, most likely byzantine or seljuk, silver.

NILE 25 :
wooden beads, recycled glass beads from Ghana, silk tassel.

NILE 31 :
Glass and Bakelite beads, silver chain, tubes and clasp.

NILE 28 :
Ghanaian glass beads, blue coral, silver beads, resin pendants, leather.

NILE 32 :
Amazonite bead, probably Neolithic, vintage shell bead from Mauritania. Silver and silver-plated elements. Mounted on leather.

NILE 23 :
Mother of pearl and glass.

NILE 11 :
Vintage Indian blue glass beads, white chalcedony beads, most likely from India and imported to African shores by medieval Muslim traders. In the time of the Pharaohs, similar beads were already imported from the West of India to Egyptian shores.

NILE 7 :
Modern glass beads from Ghana and Italy, sea shell, mounted on leather strings which were handmade along the Niger River, Mali.

NILE 14 :
Beads in recycled glass from Ghana, copper beads from Nigeria, resin and wooden beads, mounted on ribbons.

NILE 3 :
Green glass Hebron beads; opalescent bead from Bohemia. Both late 19th to early 20th century. Bronze pendant likely to be from the Djenne-Djenno civilization – 8th to 14th century, Mali. The Hebron glass industry was first established during the Roman empire.

NILE 21 :
Hand made glass beads from Ghana, 2 round green Chinese beads; silver beads, mounted on rubber.

NILE 19 :
Indonesian millefiori with a core of monochrome glass, probably a vintage copy of 10th to 16th century East Java beads. Mother of pearl, glass beads from Syria and Ghana. Mounted on leather.

NILE 22 :
Glass beads in a titanium net; Ghanaian recycled glass beads, mounted on ribbons.

NILE 27 :
malachite and glass beads, pearls, mounted on natural and colored leather.

NILE 18 :
Glass beads, most likely byzantine or seljuk, silver. Mounted on Silver.

NILE 15 :
modern Italian glass beads, silver beads, silver chain and clasp.

NILE 29 :
glass beads from Ghana, silver beads, mounted on leather.

NILE 30 :
Beads from recycled plastic, silk tassel, leather.

NILE 9 :
Modern artisanal glass beads from Ghana; blue coral beads from the Philippines, small blue and white beads from India and China.

NILE 12 :
Mother of pearl from China, glass beads from Ghana, ostrich shell from South Africa, lapis lazuli from Afghanistan. In the times of the Pharaohs, lapis was already imported from Afghanistan while ostrich eggs came from “Nubia”, current Sudan. Mounted on ribbons.

NILE 16 :
Glass beads from Syria and Ghana, wooden beads, mounted on rubber.

NILE 13 :
Glass beads from Ghana, lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, turquoise and silver beads.

NILE 1 :
leather, recycled rubber, Bakelite, glass.

NILE 4 :
Indonesian millefiori with a core of monochrome glass, probably a vintage copy of 10th to 16th century East Java beads, often referred to as Jatim beads; white Bakelite bead; coconut disk. Mounted on silk.

NILE 20 :
Indonesian millefiori with a core of monochrome glass, probably a vintage copy of 10th to 16th century East Java beads, often referred to as Jatim beads. Silver plated chain and crystal glass.

NILE 24 :
wood, cowrie shell, mother of pearl, blue glass bead from Ghana.

NILE 35 :
Amazonite beads, probably Neolithic, silver and shell.

NILE 36 :
Glass beads from Ghana, silver, leather.

NILE 2 :
vintage Indian shells, lapis lazuli, seeds and glass beads.

NILE 33 :
Amazonite bead, likely to be Neolithic, vintage shell bead from Mauritania, silver-plated tube, silver chain and clasp.

NILE 34 :
Glass beads from Ghana, ribbons.