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490. Fragment of a Mosaic Inlay with Marbled Motif

Accession Number 2004.26.1
Dimensions L. 4.5, W. 3.9 cm; Wt. 6.13 g
Date First century BCE–first century CE
Production Area Egypt or Italy
Material Translucent light and dark amber-colored and opaque white glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Fusion
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Condition

Fragment, broken all around.

Description

On both sides, slightly differing wavy pattern of opaque white and translucent amber-color glass imitating agate or onyx.

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

Pierre Mavrogordato, Greek, 1870–1948 (Berlin, Germany); by 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his daughter, Ingrid Reisser, 1988; 1988–2004, Ingrid Reisser (Böblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004

Bibliography

, p. 123, no. 332.

Exhibitions

Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)