Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Large Elbow, Yellow with Brick, 48mm long
SKU: AFE-1071
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$20.00
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Description
- Large yellow tapered elbow (aka banana) shape Venetian trade bead, 48mm long, diameter varries from 10 to 13mm, the pattern looks a bit like a giraffe's neck. The lighter brighter yellow color dates this bead to post 1914.
- Trade beads almost always have holes big enough for 2mm leather cords
- 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 1900s