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Pastiche of mosaic plaques and inlays
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Pastiche of mosaic plaques and inlays

Place of OriginProbably Egypt
DateThird to first century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm); W: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm); Thickness: 1/16 in. (0.2 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.240
Not on View
DescriptionA composition made from twelve fragments of mosaic plaques and inlays, cut and reassembled in modern times to form a decorative floral arrangement. The design includes a pot with stylized flowers on a horizontal plinth. The floral motifs appear against a gray-blue background and are consistent with elements in several other museum objects (1966.33, 1966.28, 1966.35, 1967.85, 1967.82, 1967.83, 1966.107, 1966.37). The pot is made of opaque red glass with vertical opaque yellow lines. The plinth features opaque red glass decorated with interlocking circles and rods in opaque yellow. Constructed using fused polychrome mosaic glass; elements were cast from colored cane sections and later recut and reassembled. The upper surface is flat and polished; the underside is flat but concealed by a modern backing.
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. 709, p. 393.

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