Early Wedding Cake Venetian Necklace

Description: This is a beautiful necklace comprised of early decorated white "Wedding Cake" style Venetian glass beads. Accented with pink flowers and blue, green, and gold accents these graduated beads are a rare find indeed.
Measurements: Strand is 28 inches long, 24 ~8.5 mm and 5 ~15mm, center bead is ~20mm.
Age: Circa. 1880
Material/Medium Venetian Glass
Condition: Very good for the age, there are a few bits of lost decoration on some of the beads most notably the large center bead. As is so often the case, they are long overdue to be restrung.
Price: $325.00
Additional Comments: These are very nice early, hard to find beads. Many new replicas can be found that lack the depth and color/glass combinations that you see in these early beads.
Provenance: Italy