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111. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Vessel

Accession Number 83.AF.28.14
Dimensions L. 1.1, W. 1.8, Th. 0.4 cm; Wt. 1.25 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or possibly Egypt
Material Translucent blue and opaque yellow and 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

Flat fragment consisting of one type of circular floret, each composed of a central yellow rod set in blue, surrounded by white.

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Unpublished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