"Glass Beads"

Life on a String – 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead

Life on a String – 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead

Symbolizing power, enabling ornamentation, and facilitating trade, glass beads are miniature masterpieces that have played significant roles throughout time and across cultures.

Life on a String: 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead showcases, for the first time, nearly 200 important works from the large historical glass bead collection of The Corning Museum of Glass.