Two beads

238MSM
Two Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass beads
Date: 7-9 century
Mosaic glass

Bead's matrix is made up of sections of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted of concentric blue, white, red with yellow center. 
Intact, good condition.

For each bead:
height 9 mm, diameter 10 mm
height 9 mm, diameter 10 mm

For published similar beads see:

-  A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 52 #51, p. 58 #80

SOLD