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Object NameInlay

Made FromGlass

Date299-1 BCE

Techniqueassembled, fused, cut

SizeOverall W: 6.7 cm, D: 3.6 cm, Th: 1.6 cm

Accession Number95.1.8

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass

Place Made

Egypt

Physical DescriptionRed, white, black, and yellow (all opaque) glasses; rods of red, white, black, and yellow glass assembled and fused to form canes with square cross section; canes cut into slices and assembled on very thin backing of scrambled black and yellow, and fused; upper surface and edges ground; upper surface also polished. Inlay: roughly rectangular, but wider at one end, and with convex upper surface. Decoration of imbricated scales or feathers, consisting of eleven complete or incomplete rows of cane slices, almost perpendicular to edges. Each scale or feather is white, with red dot at tip and black outline, on yellow background; and each slice has either one complete motif with yellow on either side, or two half-motifs with yellow between them. Rows (beginning at narrower end) contain five motifs and two half-motifs, alternating with six motifs.
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