Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Elbows, Square Cross-Section, Muted Colors, Set of 2
SKU: AFE-1477
Sale price
$28.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold as a set of 2
- Early bundled cane design of white, muted mossy yellow green and black. Though muted the murrine are exceptionally crisp in their miniature size. Maybe the color is just the effect of putting molten yellow on top of equally soft black...?
- From their size, to their shape to their coloring these are unusual so I had to keep them together. Sadly one has chip at one end. The price takes this into account.
- Don't need two? Share, sell or trade one!
- 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