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142. Fragment of a Mosaic Vessel with Marbled Motif

Accession Number 76.AF.70.33
Dimensions L. 2.1, W. 1.8, Th. 0.4 cm; Wt. 3.50 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or Egypt
Material Opaque white 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 or cast; rotary polished
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Condition

Fragment.

Description

Body fragment preserving part of the wide, splayed, concave rim and body. Part of a patella, a double-convex bowl. On both sides is a slightly different wavy pattern of white and purple glass imitating agate or onyx.

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 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Unpublished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