Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Elbow, Red/White/Blue Dots w/in Dots, 45x12mm
SKU: AFE-2288
Sale price
$39.00
Shipping calculated at checkout
Only 1 in stock
Description
- This is about as perfect an expression of this type of bead as I can imagine. From the size 45x12mm, to the shape, to the placement of the dots within dots murrine and the bands between them, to the silky patina of a bead..... I should really keep this bead. Maybe I will, but I'm giving you a chance at it for at least a few days
- 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