Glass: A Pocket Dictionary Of Terms Commonly Used - Corning ...

were used in the past and are still occasionally employed
today.
Mold blowing: inflating a parison of hot glass in a mold.
The glass is forced against the inner surfaces of the mold
and assumes its shape, together with any decoration
that it bears.
Mold mark: See Seam mark.
Mold pressing: Forcing hot glass into an open or multipart
mold by means of a plunger.
Monteith: A large bowl to contain ice water for cooling
wineglasses. The bowl has a scalloped rim. Wineglasses
were suspended in the scallops by their feet so that
their bowls could be cooled in the water. Monteiths,
usually of silver but sometimes of glass, were popular
in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
Mosaic: A surface decorated with many small, adjoining
pieces of varicolored materials such as stone or glass.
Mosaic glass: objects made from preformed elements
placed in a mold and heated until they fuse. The term
“mosaic glass” is preferable to “millefiori,” except in the
case of venetian or façon de Venise glass.
Mosque lamp: An islamic lamp shaped like an inverted
bell, with three or more handles from which it was suspended
by chains. Many mosque lamps have gilded and
enameled decoration, which often includes inscriptions
naming the donor and quoting verses from the Koran.
Moss Agate: A variety of Art Glass developed by John
northwood (1836–1902) and Frederick Carder (1863–
1963) in England in the late 1880s. it was made by casing
a parison of soda-lime glass with colorless lead glass,
then covering it with powdered glass of several colors,
and casing it again with lead glass. The object was
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