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revetment

revetment

Object NameRevetment with Fish
Made FromGlass, Plaster, Stone
Date99 BCE-25 CE
Place MadeRoman Empire
TechniqueMosaic glass technique
SizeOverall H: 8.2 cm, W: 17.2 cm
Accession Number61.1.6
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Glass of the Caesars
Fragile Beauty: Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass
Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life
Treasures in Glass
Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass
Not On View
Interpretive Notes
Plaster adhering to the back of the glass shows that it once decorated the wall of a lavishly appointed building.
Physical DescriptionCanes of translucent deep blue glass with scale patterns of opaque brick-red and opaque yellow, some bands of opaque white glass, bubbly, pitted, dull surface; mosaic glass technique, fragments still adhere to thick plaster setting bed section of green and yellow mosaic glass revetment sticking out of plaster backing. Multiple fragments form a fish; part of head, dorsal fin, pelvic fin, anal fin are missing, blue eye surrounded with yellow and wide red band appears to have been cut and inlaid after scale pattern was fused in place, back highlighted in blue, gill delineated in red, belly in white, scale pattern over entire body, fins and tail delineated with alternating stripes of blue, yellow and red. Thick plaster backing with large stone aggregate.
Provenance
Source Ray Winfield Smith (American, 1897-1982) - 1961-02-28
inlay
inlay
99 BCE-25 CE
flask
flask
1-99 or later
fragment
fragment
99 BCE-25 CE
fragment
fragment
about 1250
figurine
figurine
299-1 BCE
inlay
inlay
99 BCE-25 CE