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(30) Tiny Old and Colorful Millefiori Art Glass Pieces
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The picture shows a view of all (30) Tiny Old and Colorful Millefiori Art Glass Pieces in this lot. The years that these were made and the maker or makers are unknown. These are all made of glass. They are not beads and do not have holes. They look like tiny or miniature glass paperweights and would look great in an old doll house. There are many different colors and there are some that match from the same glass rod or cane. These are ready to be used in decorating, making jewelry, mounted on a necklace, bracelet, earrings, stick pin, brooch, or anything else. All of these for one price! To judge the sizes the largest bead (top center) beads measures about 3/8'' wide. They all appear to be in mint as made condition as pictured. Below here, for reference is some additional information:

Millefiori
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The term millefiori is a combination of the Italian words ''mille'' (thousand) and ''fiori'' (flowers). Apsley Pellatt (in his book Curiosities of Glass Making) was the first to use the term ''millefiori'', which appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1849. The beads were called mosaic beads before then. While the use of this technique long precedes the term ''millefiori'', it is now frequently associated with Venetian glassware. More recently, the millefiori technique has been applied to polymer clays and other materials. Because polymer clay is quite pliable and does not need to be heated and reheated to fuse it, it is a much easier medium in which to produce millefiori patterns than glass.

History of Millefiori

The manufacture of mosaic beads can be traced to Ancient Roman, Phoenician and Alexandrian times. Canes, probably made in Italy, have been found as far away as 8th century archaeological sites in Ireland, and a piece of millefiori was found, along with unworked garnets, in a purse at the early 7th century Anglo-Saxon burial site at Sutton Hoo. The technical knowledge for creating millefiori was lost by the eighteenth century, and the technique was not revived until the nineteenth century. Within several years of the technique's rediscovery, factories in Italy, France and England were manufacturing millefiori canes. They were often incorporated into fine glass art paperweights.

Until the 15th century, Murano glassmakers were only producing drawn Rosetta beads made from mold made Rosetta canes. Rosetta beads are made by the layering of a variable number of layers of glass of various colors in a mould, and by pulling the soft glass from both ends until the cane has reached the desired thickness. It is then cut into short segments for further processing.

Creating Millefiori

The millefiori technique involves the production of glass canes or rods, known as murrine, with multicolored patterns which are viewable only from the cut ends of the cane. A murrine rod is heated in a furnace, pulled until thin while still maintaining the cross section's design, and then cut into beads or discs when cooled.

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(30) Tiny Old and Colorful Millefiori Art Glass Pieces


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