Fragment of Mosaic Border Strip
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 joining lengths of mosaic border strip. Complex floral pattern in a dark blue ground, with an upper register of opaque red palmettes outlined in opaque yellow, alternating with a design of tiny opaque white and opaque red rods; in a lower register, a row of opaque yellow diamond-shaped insets joined above and below by opaque white tendrils and curvilinear rows of tiny opaque white and opaque red rods. Upper- and undersides flat; vertical edges. Polychrome composite mosaic glass; cast and polished.
DESCRIPTION Two joining lengths of mosaic border strip. Upper- and undersides flat; vertical edges.
TECHNIQUE Cast and polished.
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.
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Early Imperial Period, 1st century BCE - 4th century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Third to first century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
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