Trade Bead

Name/Title

Trade Bead

Description

Five wound glass beads, opaque black. Decorated with lattice-like design composed of three meandering and intersecting lines.

Made/Created

Date made

1725 - 1780

Place

* Untyped Place

Holland

Notes

Produced by winding a filament of molten glass around a metal mandrel until the desired size and shape were achieved. While soft, the glass could be pressed with small paddles to impart facets, or otherwise manipulated to produce complex shape

Location

* Untyped Location

Mezzanine East Case

Relationships

Related Places

Place

* Untyped Place

Manilla Wreck