Mosaic bead

379MSA
Byzantine / Islamic mosaic bead
Date: 7 century AD
Mosaic glass

Perforated section of premanufactured in several stages mosaic cane, consisted  of multiple blue and white single glass canes, placed around concentric cane of red in white with yellow center glass cane.
Intact, excellent condition. Rare.
Height 6 mm, diameter 7 mm

For published examples in museum collections 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.