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101. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Bowl

Accession Number 83.AF.28.18
Dimensions pres. H. 1.8, est. max. Diam. 5.0, Th. 0.4 cm; Wt. 1.44 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or possibly Egypt
Material Translucent purple and opaque white, red, and gray 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

Fragment of a vessel, apparently a bowl with flaring lip and curved, probably cyma, recta body. On the preserved fragment appears one single type of tesserae, a rosette with two layers of petals: a rod with central white in translucent purple in opaque red; surrounded by six gray trapezoidal petals set in white, surrounded by translucent blue.

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.

Provenance

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

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None