Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Tabular, Blue 6 Layer Chevrons & 6-pointed Stars, 24x25mm
SKU: AFE-2139
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$65.00
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Description
- A beautiful, perfect, tabular millefiori antique Venetian trade bead, 24x25mm
- Adorned with two rows of crisp 6 layer blue chevron canes and a less crisp row of six-pointed red & amber stars on white with amber and red "flags"
- 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- to late 1800s