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Object NameFinger Ring
Made FromGlass
Date1-199 or later
Place MadeRoman Empire
Techniqueheated, bent, fused, pinched, flattened
SizeOverall Diam: 2.3 cm, Th: 0.5 cm; Bezel W: 0.8 cm
Accession Number95.1.80
Credit LineGift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionTransparent purple glass, with opaque white and transparent yellowish brown blob; rod heated until soft, then bent into ring so that ends met and fused on cooling; area of junction pinched and somewhat flattened to form bezel; white blob dropped onto bezel and flattened; smaller brown blob dropped onto white. finger-ring: circular cross section, with slightly wider, flattened oval bezel, which is decorated with oval white blob surmounted by smaller brown blob.Provenance
Source
Derek Content
- 1976-01-01
Source
Carl Sandler Berkowitz
- 1976-01-01
Former Collection
Ray Winfield Smith
(American, 1897-1982)
