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Fondi d'oro

Scope note

Use for the bottoms of glass cups or bowls decorated with designs in engraved gold leaf backed by a protective layer of fused, sometimes tinted, glass; they were first made during the Roman Empire from the third to the early fifth centuries.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000261949

Broader Terms used

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Equivalent Terms used

fondo d'oro

Created

13yrs ago

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