cane
Object NameCanes and Strips (monochrome and mosaic glass elements)
Made FromGlass
Date25 BCE-99 CE
Place MadeRoman Empire
Techniquecast, mosaic glass or millefiori technique
SizeLongest Red Cane H: 3.5 cm; Green Cane H: 3.5 cm; Blue Tile W: 1 cm, D: 0.8 cm
Accession Number58.1.29
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionSeventeen strips, canes and tiles of opaque medium blue, opaque white, opaque red, opaque yellow, translucent amethyst, translucent deep blue, translucent blue-green and turbid translucent green glass, all pitted and variously weathered; cast and mosaic glass (or millefiori technique. One rectangular bar, medium blue, roughly square in cross section; two rectangular bars, opaque white, roughly rectangular in cross section; three rectangular bars, opaque red, two roughly square in cross section, one a wide flat rectangle; four rectangular canes, opaque red inlaid with strips or bands of opaque white, yellow or red, all roughly rectangular in cross section; one rectangular strip, opaque yellow sandwiched between two bands of translucent amethyst, roughly rectangular in cross section; two short rectangular strips, broken from the same element, opaque white fused to translucent blue-green, roughly rectangular in cross section; a cylindrical cane, translucent turbid green, circular in cross section; three rectangular tiles of opaque medium deep blue.Provenance
Source
Leopold Blumka
(-1973) - 1958-06-05
