cane

Object NameCanes and Strips (monochrome and mosaic glass elements)

Made FromGlass

Date25 BCE-99 CE

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)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Title Unknown (Bergstrom Art Center)

Place Made

Roman Empire

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.
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