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Two beads
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Description
16MSM
Two Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass beads
Date: 7-9 century
Mosaic cane glass
Perforated section of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted of multiple black and white single glass canes, placed around yellow in red cane.
Intact, good condition.
For each bead:
height 10 mm, diameter 12 mm
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. 204: 276-4