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114. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Vessel

Accession Number 76.AF.70.18
Dimensions L. 2.9, W. 2.0, Th. 0.5 cm; Wt. 3.80 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or possibly Egypt
Material Opaque white, red, and yellow and translucent blue 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

Rim rounded at the exterior; curved upper body fragment with a 0.5 cm–wide groove 1.6 cm below the rim. At least three different types of florets are discernible: (1) fine stripes of white in thick layers of blue; (2) yellow and red rods in a green background; (3) a white rod set in red in a yellow background.

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

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

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None