Pastiche of Mosaic Plaque
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Pastiche of Mosaic Plaque
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateLate first century BCE to early first century CE
DimensionsH: 1 15/16 in. (5 cm); W: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Thickness: 1/16 in. (0.2 cm)
MediumOnyx glass. Part of a slab of amber brown glass with veinings and undulations of opaque white glass, imitating banded onyx. Assembled from sections of cane and cast; reworked in modern times.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1815
Not on View
DescriptionAssembled from two segments of an ancient mosaic plaque cut longitudinally in half, then joined at one edge to form a mirror image. Marbled mosaic pattern formed from a single large cane in a dark brown ground with golden-brown insets and numerous opaque white curvilinear lines. Flat on its upper- and undersides.
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. 710, p. 393.1st century BCE - 4th century CE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
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