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MILLEFIORI [1 record]

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Record 1 1991-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ornamental Glassware
  • Types of Glass
  • Glass Manufacturing
DEF

Object formed of or decorated with many small adjacent pieces of vari-coloured glass.

CONT

... making it involved placing together blobs of molten glass of different colours and reheating the mass until they fused but did not mix; ... The resultant pieces showed a mottled multi-coloured (not necessarily flower-like) pattern that is sometimes called millefiori ....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Verrerie d'art
  • Sortes de verre
  • Fabrication du verre
DEF

Genre de verre produit en coupant des sections de tiges de verre composées de diverses couleurs, généralement disposées d'une certaine manière et incrustées dans une masse de verre généralement incolore.

Spanish

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