11 Millefiori Fragments

Object Name: 
11 Millefiori Fragments

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Object Name: 
11 Millefiori Fragments
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
51.1.233
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
99 BCE-99 CE
Primary Description: 
Millefiori Fragment. Opaque glass; some objects show slight weathering; pressed with Millefiori decoration: (I) part of the rim of a large bowl; dark brown background with blossoms in green, yellow and red and with yellow spots; (II) blackish with ocher mosaic pattern; (III) brownish background, blossoms in yellow and green, white spots; (IV) light brown background, blossoms in green and yellow with red center, white spots; (V) blossoms and leaves in green, yellow and red; (VI) brownish background, blue blossoms with red center, yellow spots; (VII) white circles on a blue background; (VIII) blossoms in yellow with red edge and blue center in-between white and blue mosaic pattern; (IX) part of a small circular plate; in a brown background with white spots blossoms in green and yellow with blue center; (X) Missing 2/77 - a yellow blossom (?) and light brown, white and green spots with dark brown contours; (XI) part of a rim (of a bowl?); yellow mosaic pattern on a violet background; (XII) a tile? Brown, white and yellowish marble pattern.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Tano, Phocion J. (Greek), Former Collection
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