{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-baby-roosters-black-amber-brick-sold-individually","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Baby Roosters! Black, Amber \u0026 Brick, Sold Individually","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese ultra rare beads are priced and sold individually \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBaby version of the famous Rooster, symbol of the island of Murano where millions of antique Venetian trade beads were made for shipment to Africa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVery rare mini beads with rooster design in black, cased in amber,  then brick and finally surrounded by fine black and white lines similar to the big rooster beads, but in this small scale they tend to disappear into the brick color on at least one side of each bead. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSizes vary from 12x9 to 14x10mm \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe shape of the roommster has sometimes also been described as a map of Africa\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMillefiori, the Italian name for these colorful beads, means 1000 flowers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade in Venice, Italy for the African trade mid-1800s to early 1900s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53555534364981,"sku":"AFE-2278","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-2278Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789256025","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-baby-roosters-black-amber-brick-sold-individually","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}