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457. Fragment of an Inlay with Lotus Flower

Accession Number 2004.30
Dimensions H. 2.2, W. 2.0 cm; Wt. 2.48 g
Date First century BCE–first century CE
Production Area Italy or Egypt
Material Translucent (?) dark blue and opaque white, red, turquoise, and yellow glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Fusion
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Condition

Fragment; broken on both ends and one side. Only one side preserves the original edge.

Description

On dark blue ground, a central yellow stem topped by a turquoise hemisphere outlined in red. Flanked by three red petals outlined in white on each side. It stands on a red square base from which stem two opposing opaque white spiral tendrils.

Comments and Comparanda

For the historical and technological evolution of glass inlays in Pharaonic Egypt and the Roman Empire, see comments on cat. 449.

For close parallels, see , pp. 346, 364, no. 643; , pp. 81, 201, no. 113.

Provenance

Pierre Mavrogordato, Greek, 1870–1948 (Berlin, Germany); by 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his daughter, Ingrid Reisser, 1988; 1988–2004, Ingrid Reisser (Böblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004

Bibliography

, p. 126, no. 336f.

Exhibitions

Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)