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Primary Description:
Half of Mosaic Plaque with Satyr. Canes of opaque brick-red, opaque yellow, opaque white, opaque yellow-green and opaque aquamarine in a translucent deep blue glass matrix, bubbly pitted with one surface reground recently; mosaic glass or millefiori technique. Half the face of a satyr or papasilenos with a red face, features delineated with translucent deep blue; yellow and aquamarine iris in an opaque white eye lined with blue and highlighted with an alternating white and blue banded eyebrow, above a filet of grape leaves, the vine in yellow, two leaves of aquamarine cased in yellow on forehead with three yellow-green leaves cased in red above his head, a rosette of yellow with blue dots probably represents grapes on the forehead; beard and mustache delineated with fine opaque white lines.
Exhibitions (4)

Venue(s)
J. Paul Getty Museum 2007-10-18 through 2008-01-14
Corning Museum of Glass 2008-02-15 through 2008-05-27

Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1995-06-03 through 1995-10-22

Best of 50
Venue(s)
Taft Museum 1977-03 through 1977-05

Glass from the Ancient World
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1957-06-04 through 1957-09-15
Publications (17)
Insinuendo (2012)
illustrated, front cover;
The Corning Museum of Glass (2010)
illustrated, p. 65;
Exhibition: Explore Ancient Rome in Corning (2008-04-24)
illustrated
Exhibition: Reflecting Antiquity (2008-02-21)
illustrated, p. 6D;
Learning from the ancients (2008-02-20)
illustrated, p. 1D;
Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass Inspired by Ancient Rome (2008-01)
illustrated
Masters of Studio Glass (2008-01)
illustrated
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979)
illustrated, p. 237, #689, pl. 32;
BIB# 29547
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974)
illustrated, p. 16, #11;
BIB# 28793
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965)
illustrated, p. 16, #11;
BIB# 27582
Glass from the Ancient World: The Ray Winfield Smith Collection (1957)
illustrated, pp. 46, 69, pl. 3, #98;
BIB# 27315