Lot Essay
For a similar example see no. 513 in Grose, The Toledo Museum of Art, Early Ancient Glass.
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CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.
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A ROMAN MOSAIC GLASS PATELLA
CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Formed from cane sections, many with a central blue-green or blue dot on a yellow ground and enclosed within an opaque white band, others with a central white dot on an emerald green ground with opaque white spirals, all on a purple ground, the carinated exterior with two convex curves, on an applied slightly-outsplayed ring foot
3½ in. (8.9 cm.) diameter
CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Formed from cane sections, many with a central blue-green or blue dot on a yellow ground and enclosed within an opaque white band, others with a central white dot on an emerald green ground with opaque white spirals, all on a purple ground, the carinated exterior with two convex curves, on an applied slightly-outsplayed ring foot
3½ in. (8.9 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Mrs. K. Hartmann, Geneva, circa 1920; thence by descent to W. Hartmann, Geneva.
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