Inlay

Inlay

 
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Object Name: 
Inlay
Department
Ancient
Place Made: 
Egypt
Date: 
299-1 BC
Color
AAT
red
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white
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black
Dimensions: 
Overall W: 6.7 cm, D: 3.6 cm, Th: 1.6 cm
Accession Number: 
95.1.8
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Location: 
On Display
Description
Red, white, black, and yellow (all opaque) glasses; rods of red, white, black, and yellow glass assembled and fused to form canes with square cross section; canes cut into slices and assembled on very thin backing of scrambled black and yellow, and fused; upper surface and edges ground; upper surface also polished. Inlay: roughly rectangular, but wider at one end, and with convex upper surface. Decoration of imbricated scales or feathers, consisting of eleven complete or incomplete rows of cane slices, almost perpendicular to edges. Each scale or feather is white, with red dot at tip and black outline, on yellow background; and each slice has either one complete motif with yellow on either side, or two half-motifs with yellow between them. Rows (beginning at narrower end) contain five motifs and two half-motifs, alternating with six motifs.
Inscription
F62
mark
:
on gack in green
Provenance
Strauss, Jerome, Source
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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