Millefiori Antique Trade Bead, Rare Flat Oval Tabular with Many Different Patterns, 41x21mm
SKU: JSD-1316
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$45.00
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Only 1 in stock
Description
- Rare oval tabular antique Venetian trade bead 41x21mm with at least a dozen different multicolor murrine patterns
- 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.
- From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead writer. researcher and educator
- Only one available although there's a similar one at AFE-1288