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94. Fragment of a Mosaic Glass Vessel

Accession Number 76.AF.70.44
Dimensions pres. H. 1.5, Th. 0.4 cm; Wt. 2.42 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or possibly eastern Mediterranean
Material Opaque red and white and translucent blue glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Made from a polychrome disk-shaped blank assembled from fused-together lengths and sections of round mosaic canes; cast; rotary polished
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Condition

Rim and upper body fragment.

Description

The bowl has a slightly flaring lip, divided by a horizontal depression from the conical, probably cyma recta body. The preserved part of the vessel is made of discoid mosaic tesserae, with florets of two types: (1) dark blue star with eight legs set in milky white, which is set in dark blue ground; (2) amorphous chips of opaque red glass that loosely surround the tesserae with the star in them.

Comments and Comparanda

For the production technique, see and comments on cat. 86. On cast, angular vessels, see comments on cat. 89.

Provenance

By 1976, Bruce McNall, donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1976

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None