belt

Object NameWaist String

Made FromGlass

Date1850-1910

Place MadeItaly, Venice

Techniquewound, applied

SizeEach Bead W: 1.8 cm, D: 2.1 cm

Accession Number69.3.56

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern
Modern

Not On View

Physical DescriptionShort Venetian Bicones - surface applied pattern. Dominant pattern of blue equatorial band and four equally spaced longitudinal stripes of red, blue and brown, on a yellow ground and core; one sample has an equatorial band of blue and white eyes and in each quarter separated by a longitudinal pair of threads of green are two S-shaped motifs in pink; another variant has white on red equatorial bands; four longitudinal stripes of red and brown and crude S-shape motifs in blue.
Provenance

Source Peter Ahn