Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Bundled Cane Version of Red, White & Blue, 26x34mm
SKU: AFE-2142
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Description
- Millefiori antique Venetian tabular trade bead 26x34mm
- This bead shows the early bundled cane version (fuzzy edges between colors gives it away) of an often used design of 6-7 blue/white/red dots inside a lager circle
- This 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-1800s