Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Mini Olive Shapes with Blue/White Stars, Set of 3
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$15.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold in a set of 3
- Sweet mini olive shapes 12x7mm with blue and white stars on amber and brick backgound
- 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
- From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer, editor & educator