Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Tabular, Green with Multi-Color Flower Murrine, 24x27mm
SKU: JSD-1314
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$35.00
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Description
- Green Tabular antique Venetian trade bead with rows of multicolor flower murrine on both sides 24x27mm
- This bead is in excellent condition
- 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
- From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer and educator