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Object NameBeads (50)
Made FromGlass
Date1850-1910
Place MadeItaly, Venice
Techniquewound
SizeLargest 1.5 cm x 1.9 cm; Smallest 1.4 cm x 1.3 cm
Accession Number73.3.147
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionShort Venetian Bicones - surface applied pattern. Dominant pattern 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.
Provenance
Source H. Alastair Lamb
Transcendence
Karina Malling
2016
fragment
1400-1085 BCE
inlay
25 BCE-99 CE
Whitefriars Inkwell
Whitefriars Glass Ltd.
about 1850-1860
Corning Glass Works, Fallbrook
about 1944-1946