Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Group of thirty-three glass tesserae
View through Harvard Museums
Group of thirty-three glass tesserae in opaque blue and green as well as transluscent brown and yellow-green. Glass tesserae were most often used on wall mosaics (as opposed to floor mosaics).
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Miss E. Bayliss gift; to the Department of the Classics Harvard University 1913 transfer; to the Fogg Art Museum 1977.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University Gift of Miss E. Bayliss Received 11-17-1913
Title: Group of thirty-three glass tesserae
Description:
Group of thirty-three glass tesserae in opaque blue and green as well as transluscent brown and yellow-green.
Glass tesserae were most often used on wall mosaics (as opposed to floor mosaics).
Related Results
Adults and Lifelong Learning
Adults and Lifelong Learning
There is a wide range of programmes and resources inspired by the Museums’ permanent and temporary exhibitions to stimulate creativity, engage your curiosity and provide thought-pr...
Emblema. Mosaic Fragments.
Emblema. Mosaic Fragments.
A water bird, facing right, is framed by a rectangular border made of two rows of dark-grey and brown tesserae and two rows of creamy-white to light green tesserae. One row of ligh...
Table Plateau
Table Plateau
BORDSPLATY Consisting of a bottom plate (plateau) with a mirror glass, two flower bowls with artificial bouquets, two fruit bowls with glass bowls, six confectionery bowls with gla...
Mosaic From a Pavement: White Tendril, Black Background
Mosaic From a Pavement: White Tendril, Black Background
Mosaic fragment approximately 3 cm thick. The slab is comprised of mainly Roman mortar, with approximately .5 cm thick tesserae (cut stone tiles). On the flat, polished surface, th...
Mosaic Fragments.
Mosaic Fragments.
The mosaic pictures a red deer, jumping to the left, looking back over his shoulder. The antlers are quite big and ornamental with many ramifications. There are also two ornamented...
Vase in the shape of a tube
Vase in the shape of a tube
A cobalt-colored tube vase with a sea green shade and yellow streaks. Body-tinted crystal glass. Blue glass, also known as cobalt glass, is made with the use of cobalt and copper o...
Stained glass window from the Tarnów cathedral
Stained glass window from the Tarnów cathedral
Stained glass window depicting St. Jerome, Saint Thomas Aquinas and St. Alphonse Maria di Liguori, made in the Tyrolean Mosaic and Stained Glass Works in Innsbruck (Tiroler Glasm...