plaque

Object Name2 Floral Plaque Inlays

Made FromGlass

Date99-75 BCE (possibly earlier)

TechniqueMosaic glass or millefiori technique

Size(a) H: 3.6 cm, W: 3.2 cm; (b) H: 2.2 cm, W: 1.8 cm

Accession Number76.1.81

Credit LineGift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

Egypt

Physical Description(a) Translucent medium blue glass matrix, canes of opaque white, turquoise, opaque red and opaque yellow, pitted surface, devitrifying in brown patches and spalling away; mosaic glass or millefiori technique. Trapezoidal fragment preserves one finished edge of a floral plaque with a central green thistle- like bud with feathery radiating protrusions of yellow cased with red, on the left are simple spheres of opaque white, on the right a sphere of turquoise, possibly cased with yellow in a green ground but entire upper surface is badly devitrified; back surface devitrified as well, uneven with some turbid yellow- green backing glass. (b) Translucent greyish medium blue glass matrix with canes of opaque white, opaque yellow and translucent green, dull surface; mosaic glass or millefiori technique. Fragment preserves no edges but the design of a wheat-like stalk in yellow with a large bud of yellow cased in white on either side, below on left a small round bulb or fruit consisting of long green segments cased with yellow; back retains turbid yellow-green glass with streaks of red.
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