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461. Fragment of a Mosaic Inlay with Floral Theme

Accession Number 2004.26.5
Dimensions L. 4.0, W. 2.0 cm; Wt. 5.77 g
Date First century BCE–first century CE
Production Area Italy or Egypt
Material Translucent light blue and opaque white, yellow, and red glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Fusion
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Condition

Fragment, broken all around.

Description

Parts of three flowers are visible: one with long yellow petals outlined in white; two more multipetaled flowers with yellow outlined in white and red, one smaller and the other much larger in size. The motifs are generally visible on the back side. Banded olive-green and murky colored patches of glass are visible in small areas.

Comments and Comparanda

For the historical and technological evolution of glass inlays in Pharaonic Egypt and the Roman Empire, see comments on cat. 449 and cat. 460.

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. 123, no. 332.

Exhibitions

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