Fragment of Fish Plaque
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Fragment of Fish Plaque
Place of OriginEgypt
DateSecond century BCE to first century CE, possibly later
DimensionsH: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); W: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Thickness: 5/16 in. (0.8 cm); Depth: 1/8 in. (0.3 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.239
Not on View
DescriptionFused polychrome mosaic glass.
Opaque dark turquoise-blue ground with sections of many canes arranged as a gray-blue fish with brownish scales and a whitish belly; the tail is pale grayish-purple with eighteen dark purple parallel streaks; the dorsal fin is grayish-green with pale yellow and opaque red vertical streaks; on the body at the far left, vestiges of scales in opaque yellow and green with opaque red centers. The mosaic inlay is visible only on the upperside and does not penetrate the thickness of the plaque. Upperside flat; underside flat but uneven and rough. Fragment of plaque with an inlaid mosaic fish. Glass; assembled from tiny sections of cane pressed into the ground while hot; polished on the upper surface.
Published ReferencesWeinberg, Gladys Davidson, "An Inlaid Glass Plate in Athens, Part I," Journal of Glass Studies, 4, 1962, p. 34, fig. 9.
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. 654, p. 367.
Second century BCE to first century CE, possibly later
Second century BCE to first century CE, possibly later
Third to first century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
about 1500
Probably second half of the first century
First century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Mid- to second half of the first century
Third to first century BCE
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