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110. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Vessel

Accession Number 2004.26.6
Dimensions L. 3.8, W. 3.7 cm; Wt. 4.31 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or possibly Egypt
Material Translucent blue and opaque pinkish, 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

Fragment.

Description

Body fragment consisting of a single type of a circular floret: a central white rod set in red surrounded by 16 trapezoidal petals in turn pinkish and blue.

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

Pierre Mavrogordato, Greek, 1870–1948 (Berlin, Germany); by 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his daughter, Ingrid Reisser, 1988; 1988–2004, Ingrid Reisser (Böblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004

Bibliography

, p. 123, no. 332.

Exhibitions

Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)