Mosaic eye

44MSM
Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead
Date: 7 - 9 century
Mosaic cane glass

Bead's matrix is made up of 8 sections of premanufactured blue glass canes with red-in-white centers.  
Intact, good condition.
Height 11 mm, diameter 11 mm.

For similar beads see:
-Véronique 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. 205: 277-24