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Mosaic bead

Sales price $200.00
Ovoid Byzantine or Islamic glass bead with mosaic cane eyes
Ovoid Byzantine or Islamic glass bead with mosaic cane eyesOvoid Byzantine or Islamic glass bead with mosaic cane eyes
Description

243MSM
Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead
Date: 7- 9 century
Mosaic glass


Oval in cross section, bead's matrix is made up of sections of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted of concentric blue, white, red with yellow center. 
Intact, good condition.

Height 15 mm, diameter 9 mm

For published similar beads see:

-  A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 52 #51, p. 58 #80