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Object Name13 Beads
Made FromGlass
Date1850-1910
Place MadeItaly, Venice
SizeSee Individual Records
Accession Number70.3.307
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical Description(A) One bead - Flattened Venetian, surface decoration - circular shape; ends much ground; green core with a combed decoration in yellow and pink; (B) one bead - Flattened Venetian, surface decoration - circular shape with a red core; longitudinal blue on white trailed stripe; (C) one bead - Flattened Venetian, surface decoration - circular with a red core; combed decoration of white, blue, pink, green and yellow; (D) one bead - Flattened Venetian, surface decoration - circular but nearly half the bead ground away; scattered white spots and isolated circles of yellow, brown and white on a red core; (E) four beads - Flattened Venetian , surface decoration - elliptical beads on a red core with alternating longitudinal stripes of red and green on white, and a wavy band of blue and white twisted trail; (F) two beads - Flattened Venetian, surface decoration - circular on a green core with decoration of scattered yellow spots and "eyes" (isolated) in pink and white surrounded by circles of pink, blue and white twisted trail; (G) one bead - Flattened Venetian, surface decoration - rectangular in shape with a yellow core - central equatorial band of a wavy stripe of red, white and green. At either end a row of isolated circles made from a blue and white trail; (H) one bead - Flattened Venetian, surface decoration - rectangular on yellow core; green, white and red wavy equatorial band; (I) one bead - Flattened Venetian, surface decoration - rectangular on a yellow core; only decoration appears to be three sets of very thin red and green stripes.
Provenance
Source H. Alastair Lamb