Collar de cuentas venecianas antiguas,
y piezas de plata de un collar antiguo de Colombia
Necklace with antique venetian trade beads
and silver pieces of antique Colombian ornament.
Trade beads were produced in Venice, Bohemia, and craft workshops of the Netherlands and Germany between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. They were primarily intended to trade with African countries, whose markets appreciated them as currency, allowing Europeans commercial exchange.
In Africa, several types of necklaces made from these accounts have been preserved passing from generation to generation and now are highly valued by collectors. They are classified according to its design, the workshop and its ancient origin.
Up: The accounts of this necklace, originating in Venice, were classified as eye beads. They are black with white and red eyes, superimposed with yellow ornaments. They were traded in Ethiopia to be marketed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and have been combined with silver berries from an antique Colombian necklace.
Tienda del museo de arte precolombino
Barbier-Mueller de Barcelona,
Montcada, 12-14, 08003,
Barcelona; T:34 93268424
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