Section of Mosaic Cane
Section of Mosaic Cane
Place of OriginEgypt
DateThird to first century BCE
DimensionsDiam: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); Thickness: 1/8 in. (0.3 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.273
Not on View
DescriptionFused polychrome mosaic glass.
Light blue ground with a central flower with an opaque green stem and ten opaque red petals outlined in opaque white, surrounding a circular ring of multiple opaque white lines embedded in blue, around a central cluster of tiny pale purple rods outlined in opaque yellow and bordered on one side by an area of opaque yellow. Upper- and undersides flat; rough vertical edges.
Circular section of mosaic cane.
Glass; cast and polished.
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. 640, p. 364.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
3rd - 1st century BCE (reworked late 19th or first decade of 20th century)
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
1st century BCE (Ptolemaic?)
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
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