Applique

In its broadest sense, an appliqué is a smaller ornament or device applied to another surface. An appliqué is usually one piece. In the context of ceramics, for example, an appliqué is a separate piece of clay added to the primary work, generally for the purpose of decoration. The term is borrowed from French and, in this context, means "applied" or "thing that has been applied."

This applies to glass when attaching a prepared object or decoration to a larger piece or carrier for that object. It may also be used to describe the process of sculpting a decoration directly onto the surface of a piece instead of having made the ornamentation beforehand. There are many examples of this in the word of glass art, such as marbles grafted onto larger objects or a bulb with a sculpted animal or plant applied to the surface. The term appliqué might also be used in describing the actions of copper in the process of electroforming.