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100. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Vessel

Accession Number 83.AF.28.8
Dimensions L. 1.9, W. 2.9, Th. 0.3 cm; Wt. 2.88 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or possibly Egypt
Material Translucent purple and opaque turquoise, white, red, and yellow glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Made from a polychrome disk-shaped blank assembled from fused-together lengths and sections of round mosaic canes; slumped; rotary polished
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Condition

Body fragment.

Description

Tesserae of a single type, a rosette with two layers of petals: a central red rod surrounded by six turquoise trapezoidal petals, all of them set in white; then an outer layer of seven petals each one consisting of a central yellow rod set in translucent purple glass.

Comments and Comparanda

For the production technique, see comments on cat. 86. On the trade of small fragments of mosaic glass in the nineteenth century and on the different techniques and classes of mosaic glass present in the Getty collection, see comments on cat. 95. It is quite probable that this belongs to the same vessel as cat. 99.

Provenance

1983, Jiří K. Frel, 1923–2006, donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1983

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None