fragment
Object NameFragment of Bar in Checkerboard Pattern
Made FromGlass
Date75 BCE-25 CE
Place MadeEgypt
TechniqueFused
SizeOverall H: 0.7 cm, L: 2 cm, W: 4.4 cm
Accession Number68.1.39
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass
On ViewAncient Gallery
Physical DescriptionFragment of Bar in Checkerboard Pattern. Canes of translucent deep blue, opaque white, opaque red and opaque yellow, bubbly, pitted thick light brown weathering crust on sides; fused. Bar fragment preserves a roughly triangular segment of an element roughly a long, thin rectangle in cross section with a checkerboard pattern of blue square canes which alternate with a composite square cane with a yellow square center and equal red square at each side and a white square filling out the design into a larger square; on both sides the design is well preserved while the center retains badly distorted elements.Provenance
Source
Sergio Sangiorgi
(Italian) - 1968-03-20
Former Collection
Giorgio Sangiorgi
(Italian, 1886-1965)
1-99
perhaps 1-99
about 800-899
perhaps 1-99
perhaps 1-99
25 BCE-99 CE
Comparable Item/Comparable Item
