Fragment of Floral Plaque
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Fragment of Floral Plaque
Place of OriginEgypt
DateThird to first century BCE
DimensionsH: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); W: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Max Thickness: 3/16 in. (0.5 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.262
Not on View
DescriptionFused and perhaps stretched to miniaturize.
Pale gray-green ground with sections of mosaic canes arranged as flowers, leaves, and stems: at the bottom, the tops of opaque red tulip-shaped flowers; above them at the center, three opaque yellow flowers with brown X's; flanking them are small six-petaled opaque white flowers with opaque red and opaque yellow centers, flowers in a green ground with a cluster of seven opaque yellow rods around a central opaque yellow rod, and four-petaled flowers with opaque white and opaque yellow petals tipped in opaque red. Above these, a symmetrically arranged floral group with a central vertical opaque yellow stem with opaque yellow and green leaves; on either side, fan-shaped flowers with opaque yellow stems and opaque white flowers tipped in opaque red; flanking them, an opaque yellow stem with a circular flower, laid on edge, comprised of contiguous opaque yellow rods surrounding a green center. There is no backing other than the ground in which the canes are set. Upperside flat; underside slightly convex, uneven, and pitted.
Fragment of plaque with floral motifs.
Glass; assembled from sections of cane and cast, polished on the upper surface.
Published ReferencesWeinberg, Gladys Davidson, "Notes on Glass from Upper Galilee," Journal of Glass Studies 15, 1973, pp.49-50, fig. 8.
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. 649, p. 366.
3rd to 1st century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
1st century BCE (Ptolemaic?)
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Probably first century BCE, possibly later
Third to first century BCE
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