Glass head pendant
Semi-opaque deep turquoise blue, with additions in opaque yellow and white, and translucent cobalt blue.
Cylindrical with rod hole at bottom; plain back with large vertical tooled groove; short U-shaped front projecting downwards; almost flat on top; small suspension loop applied at front on top of head.
Applied band of hair in two rows of curls across forehead in cobalt blue; upper half of face in yellow, with blue and white stratified eyes, prominent arched blue eyebrows, large hooked nose with nostrils as small applied blobs to either side, large yellow ears flanked above and below with white earrings; beard in blue with small mouth with protruding lips.
Intact, but chip in suspension loop; slight pitting and weathering, with encrustation inside rod hole.
Cylindrical with rod hole at bottom; plain back with large vertical tooled groove; short U-shaped front projecting downwards; almost flat on top; small suspension loop applied at front on top of head.
Applied band of hair in two rows of curls across forehead in cobalt blue; upper half of face in yellow, with blue and white stratified eyes, prominent arched blue eyebrows, large hooked nose with nostrils as small applied blobs to either side, large yellow ears flanked above and below with white earrings; beard in blue with small mouth with protruding lips.
Intact, but chip in suspension loop; slight pitting and weathering, with encrustation inside rod hole.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass head pendant
- Period: Late Classical
- Date: mid-4th to 3rd century BCE
- Culture: Carthaginian
- Medium: Glass; rod-formed and trailed
- Dimensions: H.: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.735
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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