Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Multicolor Tiny Flowers on Black, Set of 2
SKU: AFE-1609
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$9.00
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Description
- These collectible beads are priced and sold by the set of 2
- Tiny multi-color flowers and stars are sprinkled across a black background on these early beads. Larger bead 23x13mm with a small chip at one end.
- Smaller bead 14x10mm 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 to early 1900s