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103. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Vessel

Accession Number 83.AF.28.11
Dimensions L. 2.3, W. 3.3, Th. 0.2 cm; Wt. 3.48 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or possibly Egypt
Material Opaque red, yellow, and white and translucent purple 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

Fragment.

Description

The vessel was made of florets of one single type: a red central rod, surrounded by seven green petals outlined in yellow, surrounded by a layer of 12 white rods set in a purple background. On one side the florets appear correctly, while on the other side some of the florets have been distorted and the rods appear as white lengths in purple background.

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Unpublished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