Beaded Floral Sprays

Having made Jade Sprays, see  related link  https://baiyu-quietmuse.blogspot.com/2015/03/new-life-for-old-charms.html I have moved on to making  Beaded Floral Sprays. Below are some examples of my work using seed beads, old glass beads, and jade.

a basic spray of daisies

made from old Peking glass crumb beads

look like lily buds ?

And  a collage of my beaded sprays

Collage of  3 beaded sprays

Colourful beads make pretty flowers

I like to portray my beads as flowers

My miniature sprays also look nice standing in miniature antique bottles seen below

Composed from a mix of glass beads and jade charms

The last and most complex spray's pattern was copied from a book and made  with small seed beads, carnelian beads and jade leaves.

Pattern copied from a bead and wiring book

 *See also link  https://baiyu-quietmuse.blogspot.com/2015/03/new-life-for-old-charms.html

Happy 2008 !

I spent a few happy hours on New Year's Day, 2008 looking through my bead box to come up with this necklace of agates, shell, and old glass.

Can't confirm whether the beads are ancient or replica but I have a strong suspicion that some of the agates, at least, have been made for the fake antiquities market. Only certain that the old red glass are genuine old. Might add that, had I seen this necklace displayed in an antiques shop, I would have been fooled and the moral of this tale is the tricky path we inexperienced collectors' tread. Anyway it is a handsome looking necklace to ring in 2008 !

Blue Florets and Pendant Beads Strand

Here's yet another blue beauty. Composed from the same hoard of beads and florets as that in earlier posts. The central disk pendant (2.5cm) in this set bears remarkable resemblance to the cover picture in A Bead Timeline. Not exactly the same, the main difference being the siting of the stringing perforation. The example in A Bead timeline p39 is dated to 1,500 BC. and comes from the Late Bronze Age of West Asia. However my piece came from a Chinese source and seller thinks its vintaage should be Song or Yuan period. For all I know (and hope) it may well be a Han piece especially the central pendant.

 Update go to post:
 https://baiyu-quietmuse.blogspot.com/2010/06/chinese-glass-ornaments-1.html