Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Amber, Brick, White & Black, Elbow, 38x14mm
SKU: AFE-461
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$18.00
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Description
- Unusual elbow bead with amber, brick, black & white murrini, 38x14mm
- This symmetrical bead in perfect condition would make a nice centerpiece for a necklace or stunning bracelet.
- Millefiori, the Italian name for these colorful beads, means 1000 flowers
- The beads are decorated with slices of glass canes created by, either bundling very thin glass tubes together to form the pattern and then fusing them, or encasing round, star or flower pattern canes in concentric layers of different colored glass.
- The canes are sliced into murrini, which are laid out on a hot surface and 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