Mosaic Glass Plate
Mosaic Glass Plate
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Eastern Mediterranean, possibly Italy
Date1st century BCE
DimensionsH: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm); Diam: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm); Max Thickness: 3/16 in. (0.5 cm)
MediumAssembled from sections and segments of cane and cast; applied rim; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim; probably rotary-polished on the rest of the exterior, but the surface remains somewhat uneven.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1464
Not on View
DescriptionBroad, shallow dish. Outsplayed rim and side with rounded edge; sharply turned basal angle; flat but uneven bottom. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections and square segments of three canes: the first in a blue ground with an opaque yellow spiral; the second, represented by only six sections, in a golden-brown ground with an opaque white spiral; and the third, represented by three irregularly shaped segments, in a turquoise-blue ground backed by opaque white, visible only on the interior. A blue network cane wound spirally with an opaque white thread is attached as a rim.
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. 204, p. 202, repr. (col.) 178, ill. p. 410.
Luckner, Kurt T. and Sandra E. Knudsen, "Early Ancient Glass in the Toledo Museum of Art," MINERVA, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 1990, p. 33, fig. 3 (col.).
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
2nd century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
2nd to 1st century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
probably second century BCE
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