enamelled glass fragment / Glass / Enamel
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 1970.03.0931
- Object Name
- enamelled glass fragment
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Glass vessels
- Length
- 7.4;
- Width
- 4.2;
- Height
- ;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;5.40g
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Vessel fragment. Free blown of transparent almost colorless glass and stained. Portion of vessel wall decorated with hexagons stained on both sides in reddish-yellow and yellow paint. Hexagons enclose long-legged birds in reddish-yellow and yellow paint. Glass striated and bubbly.
- Cf. Lamm Pl. 38 #4; Carboni p. 54 #10 for colors and possible shape of the vessel.
- Subjects
- Birds
- Verbatim Date
- 7th-9th C AD
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Wondrous Glass: Reflections on the World of Rome
- Glass Case 1 Flr 1
- Exhibition Curator
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 1970.03.0931
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1970.03.0931/dscn3403.jpg
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"enamelled glass fragment; Glass; Enamel". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1970.03.0931/dscn3403.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 23, 2023.