Section of Mosaic Cane
Section of Mosaic Cane
Place of OriginEgypt
Date3rd - 1st century BCE (reworked late 19th or first decade of 20th century)
DimensionsDiam: 1 5/16 in. (3.4 cm)
MediumGlass; cast and polished.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.300
Not on View
DescriptionAssembled from two circular sections of two large ancient mosaic canes in an opaque yellow ground outlined in opaque light blue surrounding an opaque yellow rosette framed in opaque red. Upper- and undersides flat; vertical edges.
Assembled from two circular sections of two large ancient mosaic canes in an opaque yellow ground outlined in opaque light blue surrounding an opaque yellow rosette framed in opaque red.
DESCRIPTION Upper- and undersides flat; vertical edges.
TECHNIQUE Cast and polished.
Published ReferencesRiefstahl, Rudolf M., "Ancient and Near Eastern Glass," TOLEDO MUSEUM NEWS, Spring 1961, New Series vol. 4, no. 2, (also published as Ancient and Near Eastern Glass) repr. in color on cover.
The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, p. 23.
Grose, 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, Hudson Hills Press in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, New York, 1989, cat. no. 637, p. 363, repr. (col.) p. 346.
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
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
1st century BCE (Ptolemaic?)
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
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