Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Bundled Cane 6 Layer Circle Design, 30x10mm, Set of 3
SKU: JSD-1188
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$39.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold as a set of 3
- Super detailed bundled cane six layer concentric circle design in blue, white, brick red and amber. Two 30x10mm beads and one 30x12mm bead. One has a small chip at one end.
- 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 early to mid-1800s
- From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer and educator