Enameled Porcelain Beads
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Posted by: beadiste Mail author
01/03/2014, 12:05:11

Just found a neat-o necklace of decorated porcelain beads. One of the yellow satin glass beads has a broken gas bubble - which presumably happened after the necklace was strung, as it's large and sharp-edged - so I'm guessing the necklace then sat in a jewelry box, unworn, for decades, as the porcelain enamel is still bright with no abrasion or scratching.

Lustre has been applied in the end cap areas with the squiggly lines.
The little white beads are very neatly done lampwork in a cream-colored glass.

Anyone got any guess as to country and decade?

Largest oval beads measure 20x16mm, overall length is 27"

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