Glass cameo cup (scyphus) fragment

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 166

Translucent cobalt blue with opaque white overlay.

Body fragment of large cup with lower projecting part of applied handle.

On exterior, below handle frontal head of satyr, with hair in tufts above forehead and to sides with proper left pointed ear, prominent eyebrows, broad flat nose, and pursed lips; to right of handle, panpipes suspended from leafy foliage.

Broken with weathered edges; pitting of surface bubbles, dulling, and patches of creamy iridescent weathering.

Glass cameo cup (scyphus)  fragment, Glass, Roman

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