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105. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Vessel

Accession Number 76.AF.70.36
Dimensions L. 1.2, W. 2.9, Th. 0.22 cm; Wt. 1.36 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or possibly Egypt
Material Translucent purple and opaque turquoise, white, yellow, and green 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

Mildly concave body fragment. The piece consists of one type of floret: a turquoise central rod surrounded by six green petals outlined in yellow, set in a purple layer with approximately 12 white rods. The same pattern appears on the exterior but appears distorted, with the white rods showing as white lengths.

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. For better-preserved fragments with similar motifs, see cats. 99–100.

Provenance

By 1976, Bruce McNall, donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1976

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None