Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Rare TQ, Blue & White Stripes, Set of 2
SKU: AFE-1940
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$39.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 2
- Here a central amber core is cased in brick red then surrounded by alternating blue, turquoise and white canes to create stripes in the mosaic slices.
- 30x11mm and 27x11mm both in good condition
- Traces of dirt can easily be removed with warm water and dishwashing liquid
- 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