Glass bracelet
Unknown Artist
Translucent cobalt blue; trails in opaque yellow.
Seamless broad band with flattened semicircular cross section.
On outer surface, three ribs running around band, central one projecting out more; outer ribs decorated with four matching lengths of zigzag trail; central rib with four longer lengths of zigzag trail interspersed with four sets of three blobs.
Broken and repaired, with chips missing from broken edges, and some of trails missing, leaving hollows in surface of bracelet; pinprick and elongated bubbles; surface pitting and patches of weathering.
Similar bracelets have been found at La Tene sites in central Europe.
Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Late 3rd–2nd century B.C.
Glass; drawn, tooled, and trailed
1.4 x 1.4cm
17.194.332
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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