Fragment of Floral Plaque
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Fragment of Floral Plaque
Place of OriginEgypt
DateThird to first century BCE
DimensionsL: 1 in. (2.5 cm); W: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
MediumGlass; assembled from sections of cane and cast; applied backing; polished on the upper surface.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.301
Not on View
DescriptionFragment of plaque with floral motifs. Blue ground with sections of mosaic canes arranged as flowers, leaves, and stems: to the right, a wheat-like shaft with an opaque yellow stem flanked by green and opaque yellow leaves, with a head composed of squarish, opaque off-white kernels with opaque yellow beards; to the left, a flower with five vertically curving green leaves outlined in opaque yellow; above, a circular flower with a cluster of opaque yellow rods around a green center. Lengths of polychrome canes laid randomly form the backing. Upper- and undersides flat.
Blue ground with sections of mosaic canes arranged as flowers, leaves, and stems: to the right, a wheat-like shaft with an opaque yellow stem flanked by green and opaque yellow leaves, with a head composed of squarish, opaque off-white kernels with opaque
DESCRIPTION Fragment of plaque with floral motifs. Lengths of polychrome canes laid randomly form the backing. Upper- and undersides flat.
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. 652, p. 367, repr. (col.) p. 347.Third to first century BCE
3rd to 1st 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
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
Probably late first century BCE to early first century CE
Second to mid-first century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
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