Fragment with Daniel

Object Name: 
Fragment with Daniel

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Object Name: 
Fragment with Daniel
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Accession Number: 
66.1.199
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 2.4 cm, W: 2.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
300-399
Primary Description: 
Colorless, translucent blue glasses; gold sandwich. Roughly circular disc chipped from larger object; gold leaf panel applied to underside of colorless glass and covered with blob of translucent blue glass. Octagonal panel containing Daniel, beardless, in short girdled tunic and chlamys, moving left, holding circular cake in both hands. In field, two leaf sprays and two dots.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Sangiorgi, Giorgio (Italian, 1886-1965), Former Collection
Sangiorgi, Sergio (Italian), Source
1966
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
blue
colorless
gold
Technique: 
sandwich glass
Material: 
glass
gold leaf

Publications (2)

Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two (2001) p. 244, pl. 832; BIB# 58895
Glass, Gold, and Gold-Glasses (1996) illustrated, p. 9, fig. 9; BIB# AI1414