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 View CategoriesHome > Catalog > |Antiquities| > |Antiquities by Material| > |Glass Antiquities| > AA32383Roman (Probably Italian), 1" Millefiori Mosaic Glass Vessel Fragment, Late 1st Century B.C. - Early 1st Century A.D. From the collection of Alex G. Malloy, former dealer in antiquities for 40 years.
The mosaic glass making technique is a painstaking labor intensive process. Long colored glass rods (canes) are arranged and bundled to form the desired cross-section pattern. The rods are fused with heat and pulled to reduce the diameter and shrink the pattern to a smaller scale. The fused and pulled canes of glass are then cut into wafers, each piece bearing the original cross-section pattern in miniature. The wafers are then fused together to form the millefiori (thousand flowers) pattern vessel.
AA32383. Fragment of a fine millefiori mosaic glass vessel; cf. Toledo Museum 478, Choice, 2.5 cm (1"), yellow pedaled flowers, with red centers, green background, lovely; SOLD
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