Middle Eastern and Venetin Glass Beads — Augusto Panini

Dimension:

23X18

Decoration:

Eye Beads

Processing:

Lamp Beads

Book Reference:

fig.69 | p.157

Superb biconical king bead with eyes and monochrome prunts and filigree. The filigree cane, invented in Venice in the first half of the sixteenth century, found its largest application in bead production in the early nineteenth century. Highly prized in Africa, they were even set aside as savings in Ghana, Togo and Benin, where it is still possible today to find strands of unused nineteenth-century Venetian beads.

Biggest Bead Dimension:

23X18

Decoration:

Eye Beads

Processing:

Lamp Beads

Book Reference:

fig.290 | p.290

Superb biconical king beads with eyes and monochrome prunts and filigree. The filigree cane, invented in Venice in the first half of the sixteenth century, found its largest application in bead production in the early nineteenth century. Highly prized in Africa, they were even set aside as savings in Ghana, Togo and Benin, where it is still possible today to find strands of unused nineteenth-century Venetian beads.