Condition
Fragment, broken all around.
Description
The following floral features are partly preserved on a translucent dark blue (appearing black) background: two long stems with five rows of green and turquoise lanceolate leaves; two quatrefoil white and red flowers; three yellow rods set in white spots, probably buds or grains.
Most of the motifs are distorted on the back side.
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Unpublished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