Antigua Roma Vidrio romano iridiscente - engastado en colgante de plata nueva

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Silver pendant enclosing a fragment of ancient Roman glass with beautiful iridescent colours. The rainbow like colours change according to the angle of light and make every piece truly unique.
The new silver frame is custom-made to the piece of glass.

Height: ± 40,4 mm (excluding loop)
Width: ± 15,8 mm
Silver frame: ± 3,3 mm maximum

Good condition, slightly curved piece of ancient glass, set in modern silver frame and wearable. Signs of wear consistent with age and use. See images.

The iridescent glass is semi-translucent. To give a full impression of the different colours the pendant is photographed in front of a dark and light background.

Certificate of Authenticity available upon request (pdf-format).

ANCIENT GLASS
Glass has always been found in nature, but the humans first created glass about 4.000 years ago. when ancient craftsmen in Mesopotamia discovered the art of mixing sand, soda and lime to make glass.
For centuries, glass was a luxury item and reserved for the upper classes.

Glassmaking centers around the Mediterranean world experimented with new techniques (casting, core-forming, mosaic glass) and with colours by adding metallic oxides (cobalt, copper, etc) to the mixture.

The Romans learned the glass-making craft after the conquest of Egypt in the 1st century BC. During the 1st century AD the glassblowing technique revolutionized the production and made it possible to produce larger quantities. By adding manganese dioxide Roman glassmakers successfully produced colourless or ‘aqua’ glass for the first time.

Roman glass became a very popular material, used for beads, glass windows, mosaic tiles, tableware pieces etc. Roman glass was traded all over the Roman Empire and far beyond to Central Africa, Scandinavia and via the Silk Route to China.