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140. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Vessel

Accession Number 76.AF.70.19
Dimensions L. 1.6, W. 2.7, Th. 0.4 cm; Wt. 2.89 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or possibly eastern Mediterranean
Material Opaque white and translucent 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; wheel-cut
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Condition

Fragment.

Description

Curved fragment from lower body. The pattern is marbled with faint irregular white veins on a dark purple background. On the exterior, two concentric circular grooves are visible.

Comments and Comparanda

Probably a ribbed bowl. 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 and marbled vessels, see comments on cats. 132–133.

Provenance

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

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None