Mosaic Bars
Mosaic Bars
Place of OriginEgypt
DateThird to first century BCE
DimensionsH: 5/8 in. (1.6 cm); Max L: 1 in. (2.5 cm); W: 1/2 in. (1.2 cm)
MediumPolychrome composite mosaic glass; assembled from lengths of cane and cast; polished on both ends; side edges left slightly rough.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.327
Not on View
DescriptionA pair of rectangular mosaic bars, each with a central palmette. Dark blue ground with an opaque red palmette outlined in a dark color (appearing black) and opaque yellow, with a central gray-blue stem; at the bottom, two opposing opaque white tendrils. All surfaces flat but slightly uneven; rounded corner edges.
Published ReferencesRiefstahl, Rudolph M., "Ancient and Near Eastern Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, 4, no. 2, 1961, p. 32.
Labino, Dominick, Visual Art in Glass, Dubuque, IA, 1968, pp.16-17, fig. 5.
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, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, Cat. No. 628, p. 362.
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Second to mid-first century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
Probably 2nd century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
16th century
First century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
First century BCE
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