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Object Name3 Hexagon Beads
Made FromGlass
Date1845-1950
Place MadeItaly, Venice
Size(A) 2 cm x 2.4 cm x 1 cm; (B) 2.1 cm x 2.8 cm x 1 cm; (C) 2.4 cm x 2.4 cm x 1 cm
Accession Number70.3.127 A
Not On View
Physical DescriptionThree beads - Millefiori flattened hexagons - isolated eyes on a black ground with white and black canes running longitudinally at intervals; not densely packed; circular eyes pressed into surface of blue, white, red (with tiny white dots), white and light blue; black core.
Provenance
Source H. Alastair Lamb
inlay
about 300-50 BCE
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1983
thermometer
Corning Inc.
about 1900-1930
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Philip Johnson
1957-1966