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Fragment of Mosaic Border Strip
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Fragment of Mosaic Border Strip

Place of OriginEgypt; Likely found in Rome
DateThird to first century BCE
DimensionsL: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm); W: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.245
Not on View
DescriptionTwo joined fragments of a mosaic border strip featuring a complex floral design. The upper register displays alternating opaque red palmettes outlined in opaque yellow and motifs composed of tiny opaque white and red rods. The lower register contains a series of opaque yellow diamond shapes joined by white tendrils and rows of red and white rods. The glass is polychrome composite mosaic, cast and polished. Both upper and lower surfaces are flat, with vertical edges preserved.
Published ReferencesSturgis, Russell, “The Coleman Collection of Antique Glass,” The Century Magazine, vol. 48, 1894, p. 554, fig. 3.

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, catalog no. 641, p. 364, repr. (col.) p. 346.

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