Murrhine glass

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Descripción

Decorative glassware in which metal particles, precious stones, or other materials are embedded in the glass. Particularly used to describe ancient Roman glass. For a distinctive kind of ornamental glass, similar to millefiore, made by fusing together rods of variously colored glass and then cutting the fused rods into cross-sections, use "mosaic glass." Also, although the names are similar and sometimes confused, murrhine glass differs from “Murano glass."

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http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300380559

Otros términos

  • glass, murrhine [en]
  • murrhine ware [en]
  • murrine glass [en]