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Object NameCheckerboard cane
Made FromGlass
Date99 BCE-99 CE
Place Madeprobably Egypt; possibly Italy
Techniquemosaic glass or millefiori technique
SizeOverall H: 5 mm, W: 4 mm, L: 1 cm
Accession Number52.1.24
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionCheckerboard cane. Canes of opaque yellow, opaque white, opaque red, translucent turquoise and translucent deep blue glass, dull surface, pitted on edges; mosaic glass or millefiori technique. Complex mosaic glass cane, roughly square in cross section has a pattern of diagonally stepped square canes of white, blue, turquoise, red, yellow, blue which repeat a second time.Provenance
Source
Parke-Bernet Galleries, NYC
- 1952-02-04
Former Collection
M. A. Mansoor
about 800-899
about 25 BCE-50 CE