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Below is a mosaic-glass fragment, representing an elaborate broad collar. This may have been made for a statue or figure, and not for a mummy. Oddly, the piece is shown upside-down. Remember, mosaic-glasses should not be confused with glass mosaics.
In the previous group of posts, I showed lots of examples of glass mosaics. In this art, small glass tesserae ("tess-er-eye"—usually square) are arranged together, and set in something like grout that holds it all together. In mosaic-glass, small (usually long) glass elements are arranged together, fused to become a single piece of glass, and then pulled ("drawn") to become miniaturized. The two approaches have in-common the possibility of creating recognizable shapes or abstract (geometrical, etc.) designs in glass. But the former is generally a large-scale and one-of-a-kind effort, whereas the latter is a miniature art that facilitates many similar reproductions of the design (buy removing slices from the resulting cane).
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