Super detailed combo of cased and bundled cane design in blue, white, brick and a little amber in this antique Venetian trade bead.
Perfect elbow 53x13mm with 2mm hole
Millefiori, the Italian name for these colorful beads, means 1000 flowers
The beads are decorated with slices of glass canes created either, by bundling super thin glass rods together to form the pattern then fusing them, or encasing round or star pattern canes in concentric layers of different colored glass.
The canes are sliced into murrini, which are laid out on a hot surface as the semi-molten glass cores of the beads are rolled over them, picking up the slices.
Made in Venice, Italy for the African trade, early 1800s to early 1900s.
From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead writer, editor and educator
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