These beads are priced and sold by the set of 2 beads
Antique Venetian trade beads with beautiful multi-color chevron pattern murrine
Square cross section, 23x10mm. One has a chip at one end. You can see it a the bottom of the lower bead. It's less noticeable than it might have been because the murrini is so thick that the core is not exposed.
Trade beads almost always have holes big enough for 2mm leather cords
Millefiori, the Italian name for these colorful beads, means 1000 flowers
The beads are decorated with slices of glass canes created either, by bundling super thin glass rods together to form the pattern then fusing them, or encasing round or star pattern canes in concentric layers of different colored glass.
The canes are sliced into murrini, which are laid out on a hot surface as the semi-molten glass cores of the beads are rolled over them, picking up the slices.
Made in Venice, Italy for the African trade mid-1800s to early 1900s
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