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The Chinese beads (made in China, but probably under the supervision of Japanese overseers during the occupation of China by Japan) clearly copy a Venetian prototype—and all of these beads were probably made in the 1920s to '30s. The Venetian bead canes generally do not have a spiral structure, but rather are complete concentric layers. (If there are any exceptions, they are exceptions.) The manufacture of the Asian canes harkens back to antiquity, when some canes were composed by rolling up a pad of glass, forming a spiral structure. The Venetian canes are derived from the tradition of making filigrana glass (often incorrectly called "latticino" or "latticinio"—often spelled with one or two "t"s), that was devised in imitation of Roman Period glasswares that had white or colored strands of glass (tiny canes) in a clear matrix. Jamey All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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