Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Elbow Yellow & Brick with a Surprise, 50x13mm
SKU: AFE-2149
Sale price
$20.00
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Description
- Big, beautiful yellow and brick antique Venetian elbow trade bead 15x13mm
- And there's a surprise on the back side, see image two: a perfect 7 layer multicolored chevron murrine nestled among the plain yellow ones. Sadly there's also a chip at the other end, which knocks the price of this bead down a peg.
- 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 early 1900s