Mosaic Glass

Towards the 15th century BC glassmakers managed to create open shapes (plaques, goblets and bowls) made from tablets of mosaic glass.

Fragments of opaque coloured glass or segments of multi-coloured canes were assembled on a tray in a multi-coloured jigsaw puzzle which was then fused.

The sheet of glass when reheated could be wrapped around the contours of a mandrel as was the tradition (for making goblets), or around a bowl shaped mould (for bowls).

This process, potentially rich, was to become more varied later and different variants were grouped to form the generic term mosaic glass.