Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Tabular Small Red, White & Blue, 18x14mm
SKU: AFE-2140
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$22.00
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Description
- Antique Venetian millefiori small tabular trade bead, 18x14mm diamond shape
- This is a later cased cane version of the 7 little red, white and blue dots inside larger red, white and blue dots. The bead is in perfect 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