TESSERAE

TESSERAE MATERIAL

Material

stone, marble, glass paste

Color

white, black, red, several shades of blue, yellow, green

Typology

artificial

Use method

The method of tessera tile stacking is differentiated: the border motifs show a simple stacking system, where decorative geometrical motifs are stacked in a specific way, two border rows of cubes, then filled, and a figurative central motif is composed of smaller tessera tiles stacked in complex way to give a sense of volume.