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Object NameFragment of a Floral Plaque

Made FromGlass

Datepossibly 99-75 BCE

Place MadeEgypt

TechniqueFused Mosaic Glass Caned, Encased, Tooled, Cut, Polished

SizeOverall H: 4.3 cm, W: 4.7 cm

Accession Number51.1.232 C

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Panel Show II

Not On View

Physical DescriptionFragment of a Floral Plaque. Translucent greyish medium blue matrix with assorted canes of opaque red, opaque yellow, opaque white, translucent green, translucent yellow-green and translucent pale amethyst glass; mosaic glass or millefiori technique. Section preserving one side of a plaque, backed with muddy amethyst and blue strips, irregular and deeply tooled, the design consists of three pieces of fruit with a small colorless glass cross in the center cased in white and followed by yellow, from these fruit radiate long yellow stems with opposing leaves, the upper half of the leaf in blue-green, the lower half in green, on either side of the central stem inverted triangular shape flowers, base yellow, the center white, the upper portion red, on the right a white flower badly distorted.
Provenance

Former Collection Phocion J. Tano (Greek)