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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
DescriptionTwelve fragments of floral and other mosaic plaques and inlays, recut and assembled to depict flowers in a pot standing on a horizontal plinth. The flowers are in a gray-blue ground and are identical to ones described in 1966.33, 1966.28, 1966.35, 1967.85, 1967.82, 1967.83, 1966.107, and 1966.37; the pot is opaque red with opaque yellow vertical lines; the plinth is opaque red with interlocking opaque yellow circles surrounding central opaque yellow rods. Upper surface flat; underside flat but hidden by the backing. Fused polychrome mosaic glass; assembled from sections of cane and cast; reworked in modern times.
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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