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Object Name9 Venetian Fancy Beads
Made FromGlass
Date1850-1910
Place MadeItaly
SizeSee Individual Records
Accession Number70.3.269
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionA) one bead - Venetian Fancy - elliptical shape with a black body, thick white spiral and another spiral of thin wavy trail with yellow dots inside the crests; (B) one bead - Venetian Fancy - elliptical shape on a green body with a spiral of thin red on thicker yellow and occasional white blobs; (C) one bead - Venetian Fancy - elliptical shape on translucent red body with blue on white spiral; other decoration, if any, worn away; (D) one bead - Venetian Fancy - elliptical on a black body with combed pink on white trail; (E) one bead - Venetian Fancy - elliptical with yellow body; combed trailed decoration of green and pink and white; (F) one bead - Venetian Fancy - elliptical with a blue body with pink on white combed trail; (G) one bead - Venetian Fancy - elliptical on dark blue body with a spiral of blue on white; (H) one bead - Venetian Fancy - cylindrical, translucent red body with blue on white combed trail; (I) one bead - Venetian Fancy - short barrel shape on a translucent red body with at least two equatorial bands with pink on white combe trail.Provenance
Source
H. Alastair Lamb
