Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Swirled Background with Murrine, Sold Individually
SKU: AFE-2204
Sale price
$3.00
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Only 9 in stock
Description
- These beads are priced and sold individualy
- Short barrels with swirled white and black background with red chevron type murruine seen most clearly on the the beads at about 5-6 o'clock and 7-8 o'clock in the image.
- 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
- From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer and educator
- Only one available