Vulture Headdress Inlay

Object Name: 
Vulture Headdress Inlay

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Object Name: 
Vulture Headdress Inlay
Accession Number: 
59.1.100
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4 cm, W: 1.8 cm, Th: 0.6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
25 BCE-99 CE
Primary Description: 
Canes of turquoise, opaque yellow, opaque red, opaque orange, opaque yellow-green, translucent deep blue mounted on a colorless greenish glass, pitted, repolished recently; mosaic glass or millefiori technique. The inlay appears complete, preserves a scale pattern of turquoise with deep blue dots in the center, each scale outlined in yellow, beyond a row of red feathers tipped with blue and outlined in orange a second row of green tipped with red and outlined in orange, finally the exterior border of blue tipped with red and outlined with orange.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1948-07
to
1959-07-27
Nassar Bros., Former Collection
1948-07
Category: 
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, p. 240, #698, pl. 32; BIB# 29547