Condition
Fragment, broken all around.
Description
On one side is a wavy pattern of yellow and purple glass imitating agate or onyx. The other side bears a multicolored pattern of layers of green, blue, red, white, and yellow glass.
Comments and Comparanda
For the historical and technological evolution of glass inlays in Pharaonic Egypt and the Roman Empire, see comments on cat. 449.
Provenance
By 1976, Bruce McNall, donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1976
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
None