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Mosaic bead
Sales price $190.00
402MSM Medieval mosaic glass bead with checkerboard band, 8-9 century 
Description
Medieval checkerboard glass bead
404MSM
Medieval checkerboard glass bead
Date: 8-9 century
Mosaic cane glass
Flat, rod-pierced mosaic cane section. Manufactured in several stages, complex checkerboard multicolored micro-mosaic cane consists of multi- squares yellow, red, white, green, brown and blue sub-canes.
Intact. Perfect condition. Rare. Height 5 mm, cross-section 11 x 10 mm.
For published archaeological examples see:
- A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 87, pl.XV