RG113
Roman millefiori mosaic glass patella cup.
Late 1st century BC - 1st century AD.
D. 9 cm (3 ?½ in.), H. 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in.)
Repaired with restoration.
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The carinated cup with flaring rim, on applied base ring. The deep purple glass background with millefiore mosaic ornament of white, black and red irregular concentric circles.
Cf. Grose, D. F., Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, p. 322, fig. 518.
Robert Steven Bianchi (ed.), Borowski Collection, Bible Lands Museum, 2002, pp. 82-84, V-38.
Grose, D. F., The Toledo Museum of Art: Early Ancient Glass, New York, 1989.
Robert Steven Bianchi (ed.), Birgit Schlick-Nolte, G. Max Bernheimer, Dan Barag, Reflections on Ancient Glass from the Borowski Collection, Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2002.
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