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Object NameFragment of Dish or Bowl

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 300-399

Techniquemold-blown, fused, applied

SizeOverall H: 5.8 cm; Without Slices Th: 0.3 cm

Accession Number95.1.12

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

Roman Empire

Physical DescriptionPale yellowish green, transparent glass, with small bubbles; opaque red, opaque yellow, and transclucent deep green cane slices; mold-blown, then decorated with slices of preformed canes which are fused to molded surface. Dish or bowl: fragment from floor, which is almost flat. Mold-blown decoration consists of overall relief pattern of adjoining hexagons arranged in quincunx; inside each hexagon, also in relief, rosette with six petals, each with median rib, or concentric circle, with hexagons containing rosettes arranged in rows that alternate with rows of hexagons containing circles; also inside each hexagon, one circular cane slice, usually at center, which was either applied or picked up while parison was soft, causing small protrusions on interior surface; individual slices have star pattern with circular red core, sometimes with yellow center, surrounded by radiating yellow stripes in green matrix.
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