Condition
Fragment, broken all around.
Description
Translucent green matrix. One six-petal white flower with red circular center; a yellow stem with green and turquoise lanceolate leaves; and a row of yellow dots outlined in white, probably a wheat ear.
On the back side the motifs are distorted, forming banded patterns.
Comments and Comparanda
For the historical and technological evolution of glass inlays in Pharaonic Egypt and the Roman Empire, see comments on cats. 449 and 460.
Provenance
By 1976, Bruce McNall, donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1976
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
None