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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.

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