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Long glass-bead necklace (rope/sautoir), mottled/speckled ("Picasso"-type) glaze
Jewelry
Long single-strand necklace of oval-shaped glass beads in a mottled/speckled ("Picasso"-type) glaze in browns, greens, blues, yellows, and reds, without spacers. It is strung as a continuous loop (rope/opera length) with no clasp, so it is worn over the head. Beads glossy and intact; stringing is modern (re-strung). No maker's mark or country indication present.
2025.1.390
Necklace
A long glass-bead rope necklace, a common mid-20th-century costume-jewelry form. The beads are glass; oval pressed-glass beads of this kind — especially the speckled "Picasso"-finish type — are characteristic of Bohemian/Czech glass production, a major Eastern-Bloc export of the period, though no mark confirms origin here. Donor recalls having bought them at Le Trianon store, in Havana.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
María A. Arús Caraballo collection
2025.1
Date: undetermined; mid-20th-century in style. Place: undetermined (beads possibly Czech/Bohemian; tentative). Possibly reassembled in Cuba.
110 cm
Continuous strung loop of oval glass beads + small spacer beads. No clasp (probably removed). Single strand.
Glass
Beads: glass, translucent grass/olive-green oval glass beads. Spacers: white glass seed beads. Stringing cord/thread (modern).
Good
María A. Arús Caraballo
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
acquisition, use
Cuban Finotype and Its Materiality
Beads possibly Bohemian/Czech pressed glass. The multicolor "Picasso"-finish type is typical of this region.