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Mosaic bead

Sales price $190.00
402MSM Medieval mosaic glass bead with checkerboard band, 8-9 century402MSM Medieval mosaic glass bead with checkerboard band, 8-9 century
402MSM Medieval mosaic glass bead with checkerboard band, 8-9 century402MSMA Medieval mosaic glass bead with checkerboard band, 8-9 century402MSMB Medieval mosaic glass bead with checkerboard band, 8-9 century404MSMC Medieval mosaic glass bead with checkerboard band, 8-9 century
Description

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