Mosaic Bar
Mosaic Bar
Place of OriginEgypt
DateThird to first century BCE
DimensionsH: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); Max L: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); W: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.263
Not on View
DescriptionRectangular mosaic bar with a feather or scale pattern. Opaque white ground with two off-set rows, one above the other, of scales or feathers, in alternating opaque yellow and opaque white, topped with opaque red and outlined with arches of purple glass. All surfaces flat; rounded corner edges. Polychrome fused mosaic glass; assembled from lengths of cane and cast; polished; side edges roughly 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. 629, p. 362.Third to first century BCE
3rd to 1st century BCE
Second century BCE to first century CE, possibly later
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
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