millefiori glass

A fragment of a millefiori glass plate from Meroe, with blue flowers on a black background. The millefiore technique originated in Egypt for making decorative inlay plaques. Coloured rods were arranged in a pattern so that they could be fused and made into a composite rod, transverse slices were cut from the composite rod and each produced the original pattern.
Meroe.
from: BEGRAWIYA
LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061]

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