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Object Name42 Beads

Made FromGlass

Date1850-1910

Place MadeItaly

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number73.3.200

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Physical Description(A) One bead - Venetian surface decoration - yellow barrel shape, red and white eyes surrounded by green and white circles scattered about; scattered dots of streaks of pink, white and blue trail; (B) one bead - Venetian surface decoration - opaque yellow with green equatorial band and red and green longitudinal stripes; (C) two beads - Venetian surface decoration - yellow body; square section with thin irregular patterns of twisted blue and white trail and occasional red on white on brown streaks; (D) one bead - Venetian surface decoration - cylindrical; yellow body with spiral decoration of light blue loops and parallel bands of red and light blue and twisted blue and white trail; (E) one bead - Venetian surface decoration - short cylinder; yellow body, with equatorial spiral stripe of blue on white on red on a wide green stripe; (F) Five beads - Venetian surface decoration - cylindrical; yellow body with a variety of surface patterns; (G) eight beads - Venetian surface decoration - a variety of barrel shaped beads with equatorial bands and either short longitudinal stripes or long longitudinal stripes right along length of bead; (H) seventeen beads - Venetian surface decoration - miscellaneous string of surface decorated yellow body cylindrical shape beads; (I) two beads - Venetian surface decoration - cylindrical; yellow body with longitudinal red bands carrying rows of white spots between which are rows of trailed circles of dark blue on light blue; (J) three beads - Venetian surface decoration - yellow cylinder with longitudinal stripes of red, white and blue; (K) one bead - Venetian surface decoration - short barrel, yellow body with equatorial decoration of wavy light blue stripe and black dots.
Provenance

Source H. Alastair Lamb