Fragment of Bar in Feather Pattern

Object Name: 
Fragment of Bar in Feather Pattern

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Object Name: 
Fragment of Bar in Feather Pattern
Place Made: 
Egypt
Accession Number: 
68.1.37
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 2.9 cm, L: 3.7 cm, W: 1.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
75 BCE-25 CE
Primary Description: 
Fragment of Bar in Feather Pattern. Canes of opaque red, opaque white, opaque yellow with deep translucent amethyst glass, bubbly with patches of light brown weathering crust over surface; fused. Fragment preserves long bar, roughly rectangular in cross section with one end repolished revealing a design of two rows of four feathers, one on top of the other in red, the lower portion outlined in yellow, the upper part outlined in white, all in an amethyst matrix.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Sangiorgi, Giorgio (Italian, 1886-1965), Former Collection
Sangiorgi, Sergio (Italian), Source
1968-03-20
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
Opaque red, white, yellow
white
Technique: 
fusing

Publications (6)

Glasperlen : vom einfachen bis zum anspruchsvollen Projekt (2005) illustrated, p. 10; BIB# 103964
Making Glass Beads (2004) illustrated, p. 10 (bottom); BIB# 87168
Glasperlen: vm einfachen bis zum anspruchsvollen Projekt (1999) illustrated, p. 10, bottom; BIB# 64164
The History of Beads: from 30,000 B.C. to the present (1998) illustrated, p. 24-25; BIB# 69265
Making Glass Beads (1997) illustrated, p. 10, bottom; BIB# 58966
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, pp. 213-214, #606; BIB# 29547