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Object Name21 Inlays and Canes
Made FromGlass
Date25 BCE-99 CE
Place MadeEgypt; Roman Empire; Rome
TechniqueMosaic glass or millefiori technique
SizeSee Individual Records
Accession Number64.1.216
Credit LineBequest of the Estate of George S. McKearin
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionChips and fragments of opaque yellow, opaque green, opaque white, opaque red, translucent deep blue and medium blue and translucent blue-green, all are broken and weathered; all are mosaic glass or millefiori technique including: two fragments of eye canes, one primarily translucent deep blue, the other turquoise; one translucent deep blue-green cane with turquoise spiral; a vessel fragment with checkerboard blue and white as well as red and green square; a bar of translucent deep blue cased on one flat side with opaque white; three inlaid fragments with parallel stripe design, one red and white; one blue, red and white; one white and blue; four chips of translucent greenish-blue inlay material with checkerboard white patterns probably from a larger piece; part of a floral plaque in green with a large yellow, white and red petal; a small inlay fragment retaining yellow circles cased with white in a blue field with yellow on either side; two fragments with turquoise, yellow, blue and red horizontal bands; D-shaped translucent deep blue inlay; fragment of a wing, possibly in yellow, blue and white backed with red; curved fragment, possibly a vessel with yellow, green, red and white on one surface; two fragments of bars pulled down while hot and preserving a checkerboard and chevron pattern respectively.Provenance
Source
George S. McKearin
(b. 1874) - 1964-09-09
