Section of Mosaic Cane
Section of Mosaic Cane
Place of OriginEgypt
DateThird to first century BCE
DimensionsL: 1/2 in. (1.2 cm); W: 1/2 in. (1.2 cm); Thickness: 1/16 in. (0.2 cm)
MediumGlass; cast and polished.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1980.593B
Not on View
DescriptionSquare section of mosaic cane. Opaque blue ground with two adjacent flame-shaped motifs, one in opaque red outlined in opaque white, the other in opaque turquoise blue outlined in opaque white. Upper- and undersides flat; rough vertical edges.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B. C. to A. D. 50, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 636, p. 363.Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Second to mid-first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
1st century BCE
Third to first century BCE
probably second century BCE
3rd - 1st century BCE (reworked late 19th or first decade of 20th century)
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