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116. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Vessel

Accession Number 76.AF.70.24
Dimensions L. 1.8, W. 2.4, Th. 0.3 cm; Wt. 0.96 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or possibly Egypt
Material Opaque white and red and translucent green, blue, and purple 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 curved body fragment that consists of three types of deformed, irregular florets shown in lengths that, in cross section, most probably show: (1) yellow rods in green background; (2) white in translucent blue; and (3) white in translucent purple.

Comments and Comparanda

For the production technique, see comments on cat. 86. On short-striped mosaic vessels, see comments on cat. 128. On the trade of small fragments of mosaic glass in nineteenth-century Rome 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Unpublished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