. Glass. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GLASS EGYPTIAN GLASS partaking of the nature both of inlay and advantage of the fact that pieces of glass whensoftened by heat adhere to one another—they are in factin this condition as sticky as partially melted sugar—they formed a mosaic of small rods of glass; these wereheated to a plastic condition, and if desired drawn out toreduce the dimension of the design ; when cold, transversesections were cut, on each of which the pattern other cases the design was excavated on the surface ofthe glass, the coloured paste pressed into the hollowswh
. Glass. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GLASS EGYPTIAN GLASS partaking of the nature both of inlay and advantage of the fact that pieces of glass whensoftened by heat adhere to one another—they are in factin this condition as sticky as partially melted sugar—they formed a mosaic of small rods of glass; these wereheated to a plastic condition, and if desired drawn out toreduce the dimension of the design ; when cold, transversesections were cut, on each of which the pattern other cases the design was excavated on the surface ofthe glass, the coloured paste pressed into the hollowswhen in a soft condition, and the whole plaque finallyreheated so as to form a homogeneous mass. Some suchprocess, at least, must have been adopted in the prepara-tion of the large slabs, generally with a ground of deepblue glass, of which a fine series may be seen in theEgyptian department of the British Museum. Elaboratework of this kind dates for the most part from Ptolemaicand even Roman times. Simi
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