Fragment with Tobias and the Fish

Object Name: 
Fragment with Tobias and the Fish

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Object Name: 
Fragment with Tobias and the Fish
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Accession Number: 
66.1.204
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 2.6 cm, W: 1.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
300-399
Primary Description: 
Colorless, translucent blue glasses; gold sandwich. Oval disc; gold leaf roundel applied to underside of colorless glass, and covered with translucent blue blob. Roundel has irregular circular border and contains Tobias, beardless, frontal, in short, sleeved, girdled tunic with head three-quarters right, raising open right hand to left and thrusting right into mouth of fish; on ground, schematic vegetation; in field, two space fillers.

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) pp. 245-246, pl. 835; BIB# 58895
Glass, Gold, and Gold-Glasses (1996) illustrated, p. 9, fig. 10; BIB# AI1414