Millefiori Antique Trade Bead, Large Tabular Brick, Blue & White, 31x31mm
SKU: JSD-1315
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Description
- Perfect soft hexagonal tabular millefiori in classic brick, blue and white, 31x31mm
- Millefiori 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.
- This beads may be a combination of both, or version of bundled canes in which the canes were fused enough to hide the usual tell tale jagged lines between layers
- 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 mid-1800s to early 1900s
- From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer and educator