Featured Bead lovers, can you help identify these?

$5 flea market find today. The clasp is marked Judith McCann 1981 NYC. The beads are strung on metal wire. The glass colors look like they are melted onto black glass beads. Lampwork beads? Venetian or Murano glass? Japanese, Czech, Italian? Is there a name for these bumpy beads? I googled foiled beads and foiled lampwork beads, didn’t see these. Thanks.

 

Italian, I'd say. They're scrambled beads. Forgotten the name for the lumpy look.

 

Bear, can you find an example of these on the internet and post a link for reference? I tried googling scrambled beads, nothing came up. Thanks for the help.

 

I'll have a rootle round. Scramble is the proper glass/paperweight term, it ought to work. Be back.....

 

You could also keyword fused and confetti.My guess would be American studio glass done with Italian technique. I would not use the word Murano.

 

@Marko, I wasn't sure if you could read the mark on the back of the catch? There appears to be a Copyright mark at the end?

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When I Google fused confetti glass, this shows up.

This looks a bit different than the beads.

 

Yes!

 

I do think confetti describes them, though.

 

There - are all different kinds of confetti glass.IMO the one you posted is atypical but confetti is a fair term to use. Here’s another:
https://www.totalwine.com/accessories-

more/accessories/glassware/spirits-glasses/bambeco-confetti-tumbler-glass-4pk/p/149639920?glia=true&s=1123&&pid=cpc:Core+Catalog+-+Shopping%2BUS%2BCALI%2BENG%2BSPART::google::&gclid=CjwKCAjw3riIBhAwEiwAzD3Tic3UztEi5EL4kpCv_JNRilZAy1rlbDTOce5WwVVty-CEppR-zpr0shoCFHwQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

I think maybe the word you're looking for, for all the little colored bumpy pieces is frit.

I think I remember this from a very long time ago, a thread about Coraline glass.

 

Evelyb said on the finds thread they are Japanese frit beads. I can't find many examples, but here is one.

 

Googling frit beads, here is a vintage German bead described as a "textured sugar bead."

 

So maybe "Japanese frit sugar beads."

 

I don’t know that they’re Japanese and yes they are frit as frit just means fused bits. Glass techniques are all crossed over from the late 70s forward when Murano techniques were taught in WA state. Confetti just means multicolored bits-you don’t have to use the word but it’s certainly OK to use it. Regardless it’s really terrific glass.

 

Thanks, and thanks for your help.

 

The crossovers go back well before the 70s.

 

I think this designer may have used vintage materials.

 

I’m sure vintage materials were repurposed forever but American studio glass was pretty crude until the late 70s when Lino Taliapietra, a Murano master, first came to the US revealing centuries old Murano techniques to US glassblowers and was ostracized in Italy because of this. It took many years for Lino to be reembraced in Italy and he’s considered by many to be the most important glass blower in the world. He’s definutely the guy who brought technique to American studio glass.

 

@Marko

Very similar, if not identical necklace at the link below.
This one is dated 1961.

https://avaluers.org/explore/29084415-vintage_judith_mccann_strand_necklace_1961