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Description : 18 strings with glass beads add to watchlistWestafrika of various size and form, barrel- or tube-shaped, thread on cotton strings, strengthened with plant fibre, some beads with minor missing parts, so-called mosaic or millefiori (many flowers) beads, coming from Italian beadmakers in Murano and Venice. Moretti & fill. of Murano sent sampler cards with millefiori beads to West Africa as early as the 1920s. Millefiori beads are essentially lamp-wound beads, that is, beads made by winding molten glass above oil lamps around a metallic rod or wire. L: 68 - 70 cm, (4791/006) Literature Pemberton, John, African Beaded Art, Power and Adornment, Northhampton 2008, ill. 14
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Estimate (low-high) : 400 EUR-600 EUR It's free to register now to view!

About the lot N° 77
Title : Strings With Glass Beads
Size : L: 68 - 70 cm
Zemanek-Muenster, auctioneer It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : 56th Tribal Art Auction
Sale date : 14 Mar 2009 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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