Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Rare Green Core Set of 5 Beads,
SKU: AFE-556
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$30.00
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Description
- Early example of millefiori beads with green core (before dark blue/black became the standard core color) with daisy-like murrini. Set included 5 beads all with 12mm diameter, lenghts range from 14-20mm
- 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-1800s to mid-1800s