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Object NameString of 15 Pseudo-Millefiori Beads

Made FromGlass

Date1850-1910

Place MadeItaly, Venice

TechniqueLampworked

SizeOverall L (closed): 10.6 cm; Average Bead L: 1.4 cm, Diam: 1.8 cm

Accession Number73.3.185

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern
Early Modern

Exhibitions

Life on a String: 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead

Not On View

Physical DescriptionString of 15 Pseudo-Millefiori Beads. Short Venetian Bicones. Surface Decorated pseudo Millefiori. Short double bicones, yellow core with a coat of black and white combed trailing. On this has been superimposed three longitudinal white bands and a system of "eye spots" yellow, red and white.
Provenance

Source H. Alastair Lamb