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Medieval mosaic cane glass beads MSM16Medieval mosaic cane glass beads MSM16
Description

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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