Fragment of Oblong Dish

Object Name: 
Fragment of Oblong Dish

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Object Name: 
Fragment of Oblong Dish
Accession Number: 
59.1.107 B
Dimensions: 
Overall W: 5 cm, D: 4.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
25-1 BCE
Primary Description: 
Translucent deep blue-green matrix, star canes; opaque white and translucent deep blue-green rays radiating from a circular center of translucent green cased with opaque yellow, entire surface is dull and pitted with brown weathering crust adhering to sides and pitting; mosaic or millefiori technique. Canes arranged on end to form an oblong vessel with short rounded sides each retaining a cut and polished flat horizontal handle of truncated triangular shape, the handles taper in to the body, the wall bends in to form a convex profile, finished by applying a coil of deep blue-green glass wrapped with two spirally wound trails of opaque white and translucent deep blue glass; flattened base; probably ground and polished on both sides.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1959-07-27
Category: 
Glass from the Ancient World
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1957-06-04 through 1957-09-15
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, pp. 192-193, #520, pls. 25, 41; BIB# 29547
Millefiori Glass in Classical Antiquity (1968) p. 63, #2; BIB# AI83734
Glass from the Ancient World: The Ray Winfield Smith Collection (1957) illustrated, pp. 84-85, #138; BIB# 27315