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Glass cameo panel

Glass cameo panel





Artist : Anonymous

Model : Aigle
Acanthe

Date : approx. between 1 and 25

Material : Cameo glass
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1918)
Item 26 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Accessory of architecture

Vitrine : V01

Area related
Empire romain

Description   

The fragments belongs to an elaborate acanthus frieze that probably inhabited by various animals and birds. An eagle survives. The panel was probably made in Rome and echoes the floral ornaments that decorated public monuments set up in the Augustan age.
Glass cameo panel
Anonyme
Aigle
Acanthe