Images(2)

fragment

Object NameFragment with Figure

Made FromGlass, Gold Foil, Enamel

Date800-999

TechniqueBlown, decorated with gold foil and enamel, cased

SizeOverall H: 4 cm, Th: 0.2 cm; Estimate Diam (if object was spheroid): 7.5 cm

Accession Number79.1.292

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Not On View

Physical DescriptionFragment with Figure. Almost colorless, with many small bubbles; gold foil, blue enamel. Blown; decorated with gold foil and enamel, cased. Fragment, which curves in all directions; it may have come from center of convex base. Decoration (when seen from outside) consists of figure made of gold foil. She(?) is perhaps naked, except for necklace. She sits on or leans against indeterminate object, also made of gold foil, that may be rock, bank, or drapery. Figure faces right; she appears to grasp something in her left hand and to hold it in front of her face. In her right hand, she holds small object indicated by blue dot.
Provenance

Source Jerome Strauss (1893-1978) - 1979