Fragment of Floral Plaque
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Fragment of Floral Plaque
Place of OriginEgypt
DateThird to first century BCE
DimensionsL: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); W: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm); Thickness: 3/16 in. (0.4 cm)
MediumFused polychrome mosaic glass; assembled from sections of cane and cast; applied backing; polished on the upper surface.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.315
Not on View
DescriptionPale blue-gray ground with sections of mosaic canes arranged as flowers, leaves, and stems: at the bottom, one flower in a green ground with a cluster of seven opaque yellow rods around a central opaque yellow rod; also a flower with six opaque white petals and an opaque yellow center; above, a central opaque yellow stem with green leaves highlighted in opaque white; flanking the stem are two fan-shaped flowers in opaque yellow tipped in opaque white and opaque red. At the top of the plaque, and partly preserved, long vertical green and opaque yellow stems. Short lengths of polychrome canes laid randomly form the backing. Upperside flat; underside uneven and rough.
Fragment of plaque with floral motifs.
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. 648, p. 366.3rd to 1st century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
1st century BCE (Ptolemaic?)
Third to first century BCE
Probably first century BCE, possibly later
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Probably late first century BCE to early first century CE
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