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458. Fragment of an Inlay with Floral Motif

Accession Number 2004.31
Dimensions H. 2.8, W. 2.4 cm; Wt. 8.18 g
Date First century BCE–first century CE
Production Area Italy or Egypt
Material Translucent (?) blue and opaque white and yellow glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Fusion
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Condition

Fragment; broken on upper and lower end. Sides preserve the original edges of the band.

Description

On dark blue ground, a flower with five pointed, opaque white petals and a pentagonal center in yellow outlined in red. Front and back sides flat, broken all around.

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 , p. 363, no. 633; , p. 84, no. 115, third row right end.

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. 336h.

Exhibitions

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