Millefiori

Dec 6, 2017
Issue 2844

The Rockwell Museum’s Reifschlager Gallery Pre-2000

Picture labeled “Millefiori” –see centerpiece. Back piece and piece on right may be Pate de Verre

Photos, courtesy of The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY

Millefiori or Mosaic Glass — Objects formed by fusing together fragments of variously colored glasses have been highly esteemed since ancient times. … They were made from pieces of colored glass and millefiori cane segments fused together by mosaic techniques in much the same manner as Carder used.
abstracted from The Glass of Frederick Carder by Paul V. Gardner p. 77

An Example of Millefiori

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