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124. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Vessel

Accession Number 83.AF.28.27
Dimensions L. 2.4, W. 3.4, Th. 0.3 cm; Wt. 4.06 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or Egypt
Material Translucent blue and opaque 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

Mildly concave fragment broken all around. In the translucent dark blue body, white rods appear as short, white strokes, a result of the movement involved in the slumping technique.

Comments and Comparanda

For the production technique, see comments on cat. 86. 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. On agate vessels in particular, see comments on cat. 132. On mosaic glass ribbed bowls, see cat. 133. For a whole vessel of a different shape but of the same mosaic tesserae, see cat. 123.

Provenance

1983, Jiří K. Frel, 1923–2006, donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1983

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None