Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Elbow, Dark & Medium Green with Amber, 46x13mm
SKU: AFE-2286
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$30.00
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Description
- Large stunning dark green antique millefiori Venetian trade bead 46x13mm
- A field of flowers as the name implies, this beads blends and unusual palette of dark and medium greens with amber and a hint of red. 46x13mm
- For a pair of matching bead to complete a stunning design see AFE-2287
- 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-1800 to late 1800s