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Arm

 
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Object Name: 
Arm
Department
Ancient
Place Made: 
probably Ptolemaic; Egypt
Date: 
299-1 BC
Technique
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polishing
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casting
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ground glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4.9 cm; Armband W: 1.9 cm; Shoulder Th: 1.2 cm
Accession Number: 
95.1.3
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Bright blue opaque (arm), yellow opaque, bright blue opaque, white opaque, and red opaque (armband) glasses, resin or bitumen; cast, ground, and polished (arm); monochrome rods drawn, cut, assembled, fused, drawn again, cut, and polished (center of armband); adhesive matrix inserted in slot in upper arm; center and edges of armband pressed into adhesive. Arm from inlay figure. Left arm extended toward right, with armband below shoulder. Armband consists of polychrome strip with yellow lozenge flanked on either side by three blue chevrons alternating with two white chevrons, and with part of red motif at each end; and of, above and below polychrome strip, narrow yellow edges, each consisting of three rectangular pieces.
Inscription
A30 on back in green
Provenance
Strauss, Jerome, Source to 1979
Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1995-06-03 through 1995-10-22

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