Hi everyone
Have been wanting to post these for a while, and now have the images scaled down to post.

These lovely combed/feathered beads (sometimes called squiggled beads, but I like to reserve that name for English squiggled beads made for lace bobbin spangles), are still in situ on an urn pedestal which was made about 1760 in a workshop established in Brunswick in what was the the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, then Hanover, now in modern Germany.

Some good seed bead colours as well.

The urn and pedestal was made by an ex pat dutchman - Johann Michael van Selow between 1755 -1767 (the twelve years in which his workshop was running). It is in the Lady Lever Gallery in England (in Port Sunlight, Wirral, near Liverpool) and at last I got a chance to visit there a few weeks ago.

I'll post a couple of other images as well, and see what people think.

Cheers
Carole