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Millefiori bead

Sales price $150.00
Medieval mosaic glass bead MSM351Migration period mosaic glass bead MSM351
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Description

351MSM
Germanic millefiori mosaic bead
Date: European Migration period, 5-7 century
Mosaic glass


Bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Composed of applied alternatively square sections: concentric with red center and quatrefoil leaves. Yellow caps at each end.
Intact, very good condition.
Height 11 mm, diameter 10 mm

For similar published beads in museum collections see:
- Koch, Ursula. Das Reihengräberfeld bei Schretzheim. Berlin, 1977. Teil 1-Text ;Teil 2- Katalog und Tafeln, farbtafel 6: M58