Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Small Collector Set of 4 Beads with Red & More
SKU: AFE-2205
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$15.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 4
- Mini designer collector set of 4 unusual millefiori trade beads. Two are special because they have colored cores. One short cylinder has a very rare yellow core with red, yellow and green murrine. A short slice has a brick red core with white and red murrine. Very small 13x7mm cylinder with red, amber and black sun design. Finally a 15x9mm cylinder with red and amber sun murrine and a band of green around the center
- The other two are remarkable for their use of red in the murrine.
- 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 bundling very thin glass tubes together to form the pattern, then fusing them, or encasing round or chevron 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
- From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer and educator
- Only one available