Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, End of Day with Red, Short Cylinders, Set of 7
SKU: AFE-1909
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$12.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold as a set of 7 beads
- A modernist mix of end-of-day glass chips interspersed with bright red glass bands. Red glass required gold in the mix, and was thus one of the most expensive and rare colors in antique Venetian glass beads, until the formula changed after World War I.
- 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 late 1800s