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96. Fragment of a Mosaic Vessel with Floral Theme

Accession Number 76.AF.70.32
Dimensions L. 1.5, W. 1.9, Th. 0.3–0.4 cm; Wt. 2.73 g
Date Late first century BCE–early first century CE
Production Area Italy or Egypt
Material Translucent green and blue and opaque white, yellow, and red glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Made from a polychrome disk-shaped blank assembled from fused-together lengths and sections of round mosaic canes; slumped; rotary polished
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Condition

Body fragment.

Description

Rectangular piece of a mildly curved part of a vessel, probably the transition from the bottom to the body, as the reducing thickness toward the curved part indicates. It consists of two types of rectangular tesserae: (1) eight-petaled green rosette outlined in yellow, set in red; (2) eight-petaled blue rosette outlined in white, set in blue. On the back side, irregularly arranged, are the same two types of tesserae.

Comments and Comparanda

For the production technique, see and comments on cat. 86. On the trade of small fragments of mosaic glass in the nineteenth century and on the different techniques and classes of mosaic glass present in the Getty collection, see comments on cat. 95. For closer parallels, see cat. 94.

Provenance

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

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None