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marble
marble

marble

Object NameMarble
Made FromNon-lead glass
Date1850-1910
Place MadeGermany
Techniquelampwork
Accession Number63.3.88-145
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Homer G. Anderson
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionColorless, orange, red, yellow, white non-lead glasses; lampwork. Spherical, enclosing a double-series twist, with two multi-ply ribbed spiral tapes of red, orange, white and yellow; encircled by two six-ply spiral bands of white threads with two outer yellow threads; one end ground.
Provenance
Source Mrs. Homer G. Anderson - 1963
Allegria (Happiness) Bottle
Vetri Decorativi Rag. Aureliano Toso Glassworks
designed in 1952
fragment
99-1 BCE (possibly earlier)
inlay
25 BCE-99 CE
inlay
about 300-50 BCE
vase
probably 1400-1300 BCE