Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Red, White & Blue Circles within Circles, Set of 2
SKU: AFE-2237
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$19.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 2
- Cased canes inside of cased canes in classic red, white & blue, now these beads were made has mystified me, but now I think I understand: the 7 white and blue mini canes were bundled with mini brick red canes to keep them separated from each other, the whole was then coated with white and finally blue. Once stretched out, cooled and sliced these beautiful murrine were applied to blue/black cores.
- The smaller bead has a small chip at one end
- 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