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102. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Bowl

Accession Number 83.AF.28.22
Dimensions pres. H. 1.7, est. Diam. rim 8.0–9.0, Th. 0.3 cm; Wt. 2.03 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or possibly Egypt
Material Translucent blue and opaque white and red 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

Rim and upper body fragment.

Description

Bowl fragment. Vertical, slightly flaring, ground rim; convex walls. The preserved part of the vessel includes tesserae of one single type: an eight-petaled rosette of dark blue set in white, which is set in opaque brick red 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.

Provenance

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

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None