Condition
Fragment; two of the original edges, which form a right angle, are preserved.
Description
In a dark blue matrix are partly preserved two yellow-and-white ribbed leaves and a small part of a red flower. On the back side behind the yellow leaves is a banded green, red, and white patch. The flower is a bit more visible there: it seems that it was quatrefoil, the petals white outlined in red (like those in cats. 460–461).
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Unpublished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