Glass plaque with sphinx

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 162

Opaque light blue, backed with opaque light blue streaked with opaque white.
Rectangular slightly concave plaque, with major axis horizontal; beveled edges, grozed at back; flat underside.
Decoration in relief: seated winged sphinx in profile facing right, wearing diadem on head, with long wing extending over back and curling up at tip and long curling tail. On back, undecorated layer of light blue with irregular vertical white stripes.
Intact; some pitting of surface bubbles, dulling, and thick creamy brown weathering.
Made in the same mold as 81.10.155 and 17.194.563.

Glass plaque with sphinx, Glass, Roman

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