Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Tabular End-of-Day Beads with Red, 18x20mm, Sold Individually
SKU: AFE-1312
Sale price
$18.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold individually
- Small tabular end-of-day beads 18x20mm showing traces of blue chevron murrine as well as patches of a bright red, dating them to the early 1900s
- 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 early 1900s