Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Elbow, Large with Roosters! 60x14mm
SKU: AFE-2162
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$75.00
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Description
- The name millefiori means 1000 flowers, but this bead is all about the roosters!
- This bead used to be called the "map of Africa" and with the zebra stripes and, I could see that, but I'm sticking with Roosters now. This one is big: 60x14mm
- The rooster was the symbol of the island of Murano where millions of antique Venetian trade beads were made so it's no wonder this bead is so hard to find and highly valued. This bead does have one small chip at one end.
- Venetian millifiori trade beads are decorated with slices of glass canes created either bundling very thin glass tubes together to form the pattern, then fusing them, or by 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
- Only one available