Glass mosaic inlay
Translucent cobalt blue ground; decoration in opaque white, yellow, red, and grayish green.
Polygonal, flat, and very thin plaque.
Symmetrical ivy leaf and palmette motif arranged around a large central six-petaled rosette, with a slightly compressed palmette with spiral volutes below on sides of the hexagon and ivy leaves in solid white at corners.
Broken across middle with almost half of motif missing; upper and underside and edge ground and polished; pitted surface bubbles.
This inlay is cut from the same mosaic block as 17.194.392, with decoration in mirror image.
Polygonal, flat, and very thin plaque.
Symmetrical ivy leaf and palmette motif arranged around a large central six-petaled rosette, with a slightly compressed palmette with spiral volutes below on sides of the hexagon and ivy leaves in solid white at corners.
Broken across middle with almost half of motif missing; upper and underside and edge ground and polished; pitted surface bubbles.
This inlay is cut from the same mosaic block as 17.194.392, with decoration in mirror image.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass mosaic inlay
- Period: Hellenistic
- Date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE
- Culture: Egyptian, Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast
- Dimensions: Other: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.380
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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