Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Blues w/ Amber and Red, Set of 4 Matched Beads
SKU: AFE-370
Sale price
$15.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 4
- Rare mix of cased concentric circles mixed with striped flag-like bands of red and yellow, or red. white and yellow. Two pairs 12x9mm to 16x9mm
- This matched set of 4 would be perfect for 2 sets of earrings or a bracelet.
- 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-1800s to early 1900s