Very Long 1930s Pink Venetian Wedding Cake Beads 65
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1930s Vintage "Wedding Cake" Fiorato Beads from Venice/Murano, Italy Description: Very long (65" length) vintage necklace featuring rectangular and round fiorato wedding cake beads strung with chain Clasp : Yellow gold plated barrel clasp Fiorato Beads: 33 (thirty-three) rectangular and 34 (thirty-four) round handmade, lampworked fiorato ("flowered") vintage beads, composed of an opaque light pink body color, trailed with glittery coppery aventurine glass, and stylized pink roses and blue/white forget-me-knot flowers with yellow centers. Rectangular shapes vary significantly in size, the average measuring around 13-14mm length x 7-9mm width, plus round shapes measuring 8mm (+/-). Other: The necklace is made with sections of chain and wire. Condition: Excellent. No damage to beads, construction is very good. Every jewel has a story: Fiorato "wedding cake beads" get their start on a copper wire, which forms the hole when finished, by winding the hot colored glass around it into a fairly good sized ball. The centuries old process is called in Italian perle `a lume –we call it lampwork or lampwound. For fiorato, the opaque bead is then decorated according to a theme involving glitter, squiggles and rosebuds. There are as many variations, apparently, as there are bead-makers, or moods of bead-makers, but the basic idea is the same.
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