Condition
Fragment, broken all around.
Description
Parts of three flowers appear on an olive-green background: (1) large part of a multipetaled flower with a central part consisting of a red rod set in white and grayish-green layers, surrounded by elongated turquoise petals outlined in grayish-green with a wide central nerve of the same glass; (2) quatrefoil flower with yellow central part and four white petals with red endings; (3) flower, probably a bud, with red petals and white and yellow striped interior.
On the back side, the motifs are partly visible, surrounded by variegated areas.
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Unpublished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