单词 | millefiori |
释义 | millefiorin. A kind of ornamental glass in which a number of glass rods of different sizes and colours are fused together and cut into sections which form various patterns or figures, usually embedded in colourless transparent glass to make paperweights, etc. More fully millefiori glass. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > ornamental glass-work > [noun] > glass-colouring > other decorative or coloured glass haematinon1706 ruby glass1757 gold stone1769 aventurine1811 ruby1839 millefiori1849 schmelz1849 Venetian filigree1852 Bristol1880 favrile1902 Schmelzglas1904 overlay1940 1849 A. Pellatt Curiosities of Glass Making 25 Millefiore Glass. 1849 A. Pellatt Curiosities of Glass Making 110 The Mille-Fiore, or star-work of the Venetians. 1874 Jrnl. Archæol. Assoc. Dec. 440 It is of early Millefiori glass, the mass looking much like chalcedony. 1953 D. D. C. P. Mould Ireland of Saints xi. 146 Millefiori glass..is frequently used in Celtic art... Millefiori had been made in the Roman Empire. 1978 Antiques & Art Monitor 28 Oct. 33/3 A 19th-century millefiori Bohemian paperweight fetched £110. 1991 Stained Glass Fall 183 Both the ancient Egyptians and the Romans alike, knew how to fuse millefiori into beautiful containers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1849 |
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