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Fragment of Bar or Strip in Feather or Scale Pattern

Fragment of Bar or Strip in Feather or Scale Pattern

 
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Object Name: 
Fragment of Bar or Strip in Feather or Scale Pattern
Department
Ancient
Category
Roman
Place Made: 
Roman Empire; probably Rome
Date: 
75 BC-25 AD
Color
Opaque red, white, yellow
AAT
white
Technique
mosaic glass or millefiori technique
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 2.9 cm, L: 3.7 cm, W: 1.4 cm
Accession Number: 
68.1.37
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Canes of opaque red, opaque white, opaque yellow with deep translucent amethyst glass, bubbly with patches of light brown weathering crust over surface; mosaic glass or millefiori technique. Fragment preserves long bar, roughly rectangular in cross section with one end repolished revealing a design of two rows of four feathers, one on top of the other in red, the lower portion outlined in yellow, the upper part outlined in white, all in an amethyst matrix.
Provenance
Sangiorgi, Giorgio, Former Collection to
Sangiorgi, Sergio, Source to 1968-03-20

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Publications

Glasperlen : vom einfachen bis zum anspruchsvollen Projekt (2005) illustrated, p. 10; BIB# 103964
Making Glass Beads (2004) illustrated, p. 10 (bottom); BIB# 87168
Glasperlen: vm einfachen bis zum anspruchsvollen Projekt (1999) illustrated, p. 10, bottom; BIB# 64164
The History of Beads: from 30,000 B.C. to the present (1998) illustrated, p. 24-25; BIB# 69265
Making Glass Beads (1997) illustrated, p. 10, bottom; BIB# 58966
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) pp. 213-214, #606; BIB# 29547

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