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Object NameHalf of Mosaic Plaque with Golden Courtesan

Made FromGlass

Date25 BCE-99 CE

TechniqueMosaic glass or millefiori technique, cut, polished

SizeOverall H: 3.3 cm, W: 1.5 cm, Th: 0.4 cm

Accession Number67.1.6

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

The Golden Courtesan was a character in the New Comedy.

Place Made

Roman Empire; possibly Rome; possibly Alexandria

Physical DescriptionHalf of Mosaic Plaque with Golden Courtesan. Translucent medium gray-blue glass background with canes of opaque white, opaque red, opaque yellow, translucent aquamarine and translucent yellow-green glass; mosaic glass or millefiori technique, cut and repolished recently. Slice of a large inlay plaque preserving half of a female head; the face and eye modeled in opaque white with features in blue, lips and hair in red, delineation of hair yellow-green above a stylized floral filet in yellow with an oval jewel in aquamarine at the center, all on a medium gray-blue ground.
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