Bracelet

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Object Name: 
Bracelet
Place Made: 
Italy, possibly Praeneste
possibly Italy, Praeneste (found)
Accession Number: 
76.1.33
Dimensions: 
Overall D: 1.7 cm, Diam (max): 9 cm; Interior Diam (max): 7.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
699-600 BCE
Primary Description: 
Bracelet. Dark blue and opaque yellow glass, copper alloy; wound, trail-decorated, tooled. Dull with pitting and bubbles, trails bubbly with some heavier pitting and devitrification, wound on a square copper rod. Circular arm band or bracelet, roughly a flattened oval in cross section wound with a yellow trail and dragged along the circumference six times to form a festoon pattern.

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Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Sangiorgi, Sergio (Italian), Source
1976-12-22
Martinetti, Former Collection
Sangiorgi, Giorgio (Italian, 1886-1965), Former Collection
Category: 
Origins of Glassmaking
Jewelry
Color: 
yellow
dark blue
Technique: 
trailing
tooling
Material: 
glass
copper alloy

Publications (7)

Ancient and Islamic Glass: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2019) illustrated, pp. 30-31;
Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 3) (2012) pp. 274, 683; BIB# 61154
Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 2) (1999) p. 60; BIB# 61154
Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 1) (1999) pp. 50, 249, 251; BIB# 61154
La Fenice di Sabbia: Storia e Tecnologia del vetro Antico (1995) illustrated, p. 22, 37, fig. 28; BIB# 39935
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, p. 123, #256, pl. 15; BIB# 29547
Collezione di Vetri Antichi dalle Origini al V sec. D.C. (1914) p. 19, pl. 7, #39; BIB# 35815