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Object NameInlay

Made FromGlass

Date299-1 BCE

Techniqueassembled, fused, cut

SizeOverall H: 0.5 cm, W: 2.7 cm, D: 1.7 cm

Accession Number95.1.5

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass

Place Made

Egypt

Physical DescriptionYellow, black, red, and deep blue (all opaque) glasses; rods of yellow, black, and red; yellow and black; and yellow, red, and blue assembled and fused to form canes, which were cut into slice, assembled, and fused; resultant complex canes cut into slices, assembled, and fused on red backing; upper surface and edges ground; upper surface also polished. Inlay: roughly rectangular, but wider at one end, and with slightly convex upper surface. Decoration consists of three composite elements: (from broader end): (1) alternating stripes of blue, yellow, red, yellow, and blue, perpendicular to sides; (2) semicircular element consisting three yellow and blue bars alternating with four yellow rods, those near edge being more or less semicircular and those near center being U-shaped or bent double: (from center), yellow, yellow lotus flowers in blue matrix, yellow, yellow ring-and-dot motifs in blue matrix, yellow, yellow lotus flowers in blue matrix, and yellow; (3) checkerboard pattern of yellow dots arranged in quincunx and linked by black oval motifs with yellow borders, on red background. Backing has several broken bubbles on underside.
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