NINE ROMAN MOSAIC GLASS FLORAL PLAQUES

MIDDLE EGYPT, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

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NINE ROMAN MOSAIC GLASS FLORAL PLAQUES
middle egypt, circa late 1st century b.c.-1st century a.d.
Each preserving a multitude of plant life including sheaves of wheat, daffodils, tulip-shaped flowers and other petaled blossoms and foliate stems, some stylized, in yellow, green, white, red and blue on either a cobalt blue or dark blue ground
3 in. (9.5 cm) long for the largest (9)

Literature

Sangiorgi, Collezione di Vetri Antichi, no. 264, pl. LVI (for one).

Lot Essay

Floral plaque inlays are now thought to have been made principally in Middle Egypt, although examples have been found in Alexandria to the north and Dendera in the south. For a recent discussion see p. 404-407 in Stern and Schlick-Nolte, Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C.- A.D. 50, Ernesto Wolf Collection.

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