**First Time At Auction**

Europe, Italy, ca. 19th century CE. A gorgeous strand of forty-eight tubular and spherical glass trade beads, in hues of cobalt, sapphire, periwinkle, citrine, and ruby, with forty-eight white spacer beads in between. Each bead has either striped, solid, sunburst, or chevron designs, and each bead has its own unique patterning. These beads are of the millefiori style. To make millefiori beads, artisans produce glass canes or rods, called murrine, by layering different-colored glass around a core. At this stage, their multicolored patterns are only visible from the cut ends of the cane. The rods are heated in a furnace and stretched until thin, then cut into beads. Lovely and wearable as well! Size: 11.75" L x 7.5" Diameter (29.8 cm x 19 cm); size of largest bead: 0.65" H (1.7 cm).

Provenance: private Ventura County, California, USA collection

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#125038

Wearable as shown. Minor chips to some beads, but overall very good. Some small white beads may be stuck within larger neighboring beads, but all are present.