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A Roman mosaic glass half inlay of a female 'New Comedy' theatre mask

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A Roman mosaic glass half inlay of a female 'New Comedy' theatre mask

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A Roman mosaic glass half inlay of a female 'New Comedy' theatre mask
Circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D.
The opaque white mask with thin blue lines delineating the nose and eye, red open mouth, the elaborate coiffure of two long red ringlets, the third ringlet wrapped with pearls, the hair piled on the top of the head with further pearl ornament and a diadem with yellow and green leaf pendants, set in a blue matrix, 2.6cm x 1cm
Footnotes:
Provenance:
With L'Art Ancien, Montreal, 1989.

This small plaque originally came from a much longer bar, from which slices with identical images would have been cut, with two slices used to create a full face that were then used to adorn small decorative items and furniture. Similar masks are believed to represent Dionysus, the Greek god of theatre. For a discussion alongside examples from the Ernesto Wolf Collection now in the Suttgart Museum cf. E.M. Stern & B. Schlick-Nolte, Early Glass of the Ancient World, Ernesto Wolf Collection, Ostfildern, 1994, pp.376-385, No.126-132.