Eye Beads and Fragments

Eye Beads and Fragments

 
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Object Name: 
Eye Beads and Fragments
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
Italy
Date: 
1800-1899
Color
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purple
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blue
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red
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white
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green
Dimensions: 
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Accession Number: 
73.3.156
Location: 
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Description
Multi-colored mosaic glass; fused and hot-worked. (A) Miscellaneous small beads and glass fragments. Red beads with white core, deformed, hence rejected samples; (B) fragments of glass include: a rod of layers with a dark outer coat, perhaps intended for making of millefiori eyes; a red rod, the raw material for making red striping on beads; a section of cane as it is at beginning of the drawing and winding process to produce a spirally, decorated bead; and a number of canes from which such beads as (A) are made; (C) one hundred ten beads include two varieties of Corneline d'Aleppo, and purple and blue beads of the Rocaille or "pound" bead variety, plus one small green bead.
Provenance
Lamb, Alastair, Source
 

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