Millefiori, Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Brick, White & Blue, 27x12mm, Sold Individually
SKU: AFE-2238
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$10.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold individually 27x12mm
- Antique Venetian millefiori trade beads brick, blue and white in a design that looks like it must be bundled, but it's not!
- How did they get the tiny blue canes cased in white arranged inside the brick center without bundling them?? Maybe a method was developed for melting the fine canes making ups the design together so fully that the tell-tale jagged lines of bundled canes disappeared? But then how to maintain the tiny blue and white canes so crisply positioned in the process? This pattern is likely to keep me guessing until I can talk to a mosaic cane maker about it....
- Made in Venice, Italy for the African trade mid- to late 1800s