Borneo Dyak
Re: Re: Borneo Dyak strand -- stefany Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: Timbuk-2 Post Reply
01/06/2017, 16:24:49

With the exception of less than a handful of beads - actually just two - I do not see a single bead that comes even close to Venentian beads. Not in size, not in color (most often) and certainly not in design.

Of course quite a few of them resemble Venetian types more or less closely (the red specimen with yellow "eyes" in cylindrical shape left of the coin for example, and especially bead Nr. 12, right side on the photo, counted from the end of the strand, a design well known not only from Venice, but also Mauritania)but though I do not consider myself having the ultimate expertise on Venetian beads (and neither on those from Borneo, actually), I am confident to say so!

Am I really the only one to see that the whole appearance of this beads smells Asian - not European?

To avoid being slaughtered, I say this: It is always possible that a few, very few beads in this case, if any - 1,2,3,4 or 5 the most not counting the monochrome blue ones - could be Venetian piece for one reason or another.

I am also not saying that Venice has not exported beads to Asia and Indonesia - I bet they have (though exporters), but if more than five beads on this strand were made in Venice, I would be amazed.

I believe that most likely not a single piece on this strand has been made in Italy!



Modified by Timbuk-2 at Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 17:26:35

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