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107. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Vessel

Accession Number 83.AF.28.4
Dimensions pres. H. 2.0, est. Diam. rim 9.0, Th. 0.22 cm; Wt. 2.45 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or possibly Egypt
Material Translucent purple and green and opaque white and yellow 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, ground rim; convex walls. The vessel includes tesserae of three types: (1) an eight-petaled rosette with a central white rod set in translucent purple and yellow glass, surrounded by six translucent purple trapezoidal petals set in yellow, surrounded by translucent blue; (2) spiraling fine white in thick translucent purple glass; (3) spiraling fine yellow in thick translucent green 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Unpublished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