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Genuine Byzantine / Islamic mosaic cane glass bead, 7-9 century

$ 29.04

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Material: Glass
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Color: Multi-Color
  • Handmade: Yes
  • Condition: New
  • Modified Item: No

    Description

    Byzantine / Islamic mosaic cane glass bead
    Date: 7- 9 century
    Mosaic cane glass
    Perforated section of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted  of multiple green and light green single glass canes, placed around yellow in red cane.
    Intact, good condition.
    Height 10 mm, diameter 11 mm.
    For published archaeological examples in museum collections see:
    - Reinhard Andrae, Mosaikaugenperlen.
    Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung und Datierung karolingerzeitlicher Millefioriglasperlen in Europa. Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 4 (1973), 1975, pp. 111, Taf. 4 # 0210
    - Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 204- cat.276-4 (with black canes)
    -  V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p.75, p.93 #254
    -  A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 58 #83, p. 88, p. 115