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106. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Vessel

Accession Number 83.AF.28.17
Dimensions pres. H. 1.1, W. 2.0, Th. 0.4–0.5 cm; Wt. 5.70 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or possibly Egypt
Material Translucent green and purple and opaque white 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 curving body fragment from the transition from the bottom (seemingly raised) to the curving body walls. A single type of floret appears: a central translucent green quatrefoil outlined by white, set in translucent purple.

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Unpublished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