Fragment of Floral Plaque
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Fragment of Floral Plaque
Place of OriginEgypt
DateThird to first century BCE
DimensionsH: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm); W: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.241
Not on View
DescriptionFragment of plaque with floral motifs. Pale gray-green ground with sections of mosaic canes arranged as flowers and leaves: at the bottom at center, a four-petaled flower in opaque yellow outlined in opaque white and opaque red; above it, four pairs of long lily-like flowers, green at their base with opaque yellow and opaque white above; at the top, and upside down on the plaque, a central fan-shaped flower framed on either side by identical flowers (mostly lost), with opaque yellow bottoms and opaque red tops; between the central flower and the other two flowers, two green and opaque yellow spear-shaped leaves. Flanking these central motifs, side zones containing several different flowers arranged vertically in somewhat symmetrical pattern; they include small six-petaled opaque white flowers with opaque red centers, larger circular opaque yellow flowers with brown x's at their centers, and a flower in a green ground with a cluster of seven opaque yellow rods surrounding a central opaque yellow rod. Lengths of polychrome canes laid randomly or at right angles form the backing. Upperside flat; underside slightly convex and uneven. Glass; assembled from sections of cane and cast; applied backing; polished on the upper surface.
Pale gray-green ground with sections of mosaic canes arranged as flowers and leaves: at the bottom at center, a four-petaled flower in opaque yellow outlined in opaque white and opaque red; above it, four pairs of long lily-like flowers, green at their base
DESCRIPTION Fragment of plaque with floral motifs. Lengths of polychrome canes laid randomly or at right angles form the backing. Upperside flat; underside slightly convex and uneven.
TECHNIQUE Assembled from sections of cane and cast; applied backing; polished on the upper surface.
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, Hudson Hills Press in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, New York, 1989, cat. no. 646, pp. 365-366, repr. (col.) p. 347.Comparative ReferencesSee also Froehner, W., Collection Julian Greau, Paris, 1903, Vol. 1, pl. 64, no. 8. Cf. Weinberg, G.D., "Notes on Glass from Upper Galilee," JOURNAL OF GLASS STUDIES, 15, 1973, p. 47, figs. 5-6. Cf. Cooney, J., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum, IV: Glass, London, 1976, p. 133, nos. 1648-650; pl. II, no. 1646.3rd to 1st century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
1st century BCE (Ptolemaic?)
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Probably first century BCE, possibly later
Third to first century BCE
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