Mosaic eye

35MSM         SOLD
Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead
Date: 7 - 9 century
Mosaic cane glass

Bead's matrix is made up of 10 sections of premanufactured blue glass canes with blue-in-white centers.   

Intact, good condition.
Height 8 mm, diameter 10 mm.

Published beads: 
- J. Callmer,Trade beads and bead trade in Scandinavia ca. 800-1000 A.D., 1977, color pl.4: G012