Glass eye
<B>1.</B> A globe of glass that looks like and is intended to replace the eyeball.<BR><B>2.</B> By extension, a real eye that looks glassy and as lifeless as a poorly crafted glass eye, The first glass eye was made in 1832 by the glassblower Ludwig Muller-Uri in Lauscha, Germany.
Although artificial eyes can be manufactured from plastic today, no other material is said to be equal to a glass eye created from a special blend of Cryolite glass.
See also: Ocular prosthesis.