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Part of Brooch

Part of Brooch

 
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Object Name: 
Part of Brooch
Department
Ancient
Category
Origins of Glassmaking
Jewelry
Place Made: 
Italy
Date: 
699-600 BC
Color
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gray
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blue
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black
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yellow
Technique
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applied decoration
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core-forming
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off-hand process
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall L: 7.7 cm
Accession Number: 
76.1.32
Location: 
On Display
Description
Greyish-blue glass appearing black, dull with extensive pitting and bubbles, opaque yellow glass trails, bubbly and almost completely devitrified; core-formed, trail-decorated and tooled. "Leech-shaped" bow vertically decorated with heavy trail wound twenty-five times around body and dragged alternately back and forth twelve times to create a deep furrowed or ribbed effect; metal clasp and pin missing.
Provenance
Sangiorgi, Sergio, Source
1976-12-22
Martinelli, Former Collection
Sangiorgi, Giorgio, Former Collection

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Publications

The Corning Museum of Glass (2010) illustrated, p. 65;
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, p. 123, #255; BIB# 29547

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