Venetian Murano Foiled Glass Beads

Murano Glass bead necklace of handmade glass. The asymetrical necklace's beads are a varied sampler of intricate Murano glass manufacturing techniq...

Candy colored crackle glass suite set in sterling silver form the Art Deco era. Crackle glass is produced by inserting the hot glass into cold water during production to create a "cr...

Attractive and unusual pearl bead necklace with hand splattered gold and black paint accents. Large clear blown glass pear shaped beads strung throughout. 28" x 1"
Excellent c...

Ethnic Inspired Charm Necklace or belt from the 1980's. Antique gold finish on brass with semiprecious beads of carnelian, amythest and turquoise. 45" x .75". 1980s USA.

This antique rare hand-pressed-glass necklace features semi-translucent grape-green large beads that are capped with gilt-brass filigree. Based on the combination of bead seams, spring-ring clasp, and metal findings on the unmarked faux Chinese-jade necklace, it dates to the late Victorian period most likely from Western Europe. Around WWI, hand presses, which stamped molten glass into a mold to create a bead with a hole and a seam, were often used to produce costume jewelry as a cottage industry in Germany and the Czech region. This was while there was a lack of factory machine presses and finishing tumblers that used sand to polish out the seam lines. Another reason that the cloudy green beads can be identified as atypically hand-pressed is that they are more opaque and therefore harder and less prone to breaking during formation than fully-translucent glass, which was better suited for automated-machine pressing. Also the green beads are an unusual swirled color including white, which suggests that their production was more limited than machine-pressing would enable. Without the bead-seams, this necklace could be mistaken for one by Coco Chanel. Her 1920s couture...

Glittering crystal glass beaded graduated necklace ca 1960 The elegant necklace is designed with three graduated rows of pale lavender milky opal color elongated glass beads Juxta...

Murano, Italy. Art glass necklace in different coloured glass. Approx. the 1970s In perfect condition. Total length:

Lorraine’s Bijoux has on offer a Vintage Venetian glass Trade beads with a central glass elbow shaped bead. These beads were made to trade to other countries in exchange for goods an...