Fragment of Dish

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Fragment of Dish

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Eastern Mediterreanean, possibly Italy

DateSecond to mid-first century BCE

DimensionsMax W: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); Thickness: 1/8 in. (0.3 cm)

MediumAssembled from sections, segments, and lengths of cane and cast; rotary-polished on both surfaces.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1980.875

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DescriptionFragment of bottom of broad, shallow dish. Upper- and undersides of bottom flat. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections, square segments, and short rectangular lengths of six canes: the first in a purple ground with an opaque white spiral; the second in a blue-green ground with an opaque yellow spiral around a central golden-brown rod; the third in a golden-brown ground with an opaque white spiral around a central purple rod; the fourth, all rectangular lengths, in a purple ground with three parallel opaque white lines; the fifth, all squarish segments in an opaque white ground backed by golden-brown; and the sixth, all squarish segments, in an opaque yellow ground backed by golden-brown, visible only on the interior. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections, square segments, and short rectangular lengths of six canes: the first in a purple ground with an opaque white spiral; the second in a blue-green ground with an opaque yellow spiral around a central DESCRIPTION Fragment of bottom of broad, shallow dish. Upper- and undersides of bottom flat. TECHNIQUE Assembled from sections, segments, and lengths of cane and cast; rotary-polished on both surfaces.

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. 209, p. 203, repr. (col.) p. 181 (int.).