Square mosaic floor made of white marble pieces and colored glass, organized to create floral desgins and geometric patterns.

Polychrome Mosaic Pavement

Artist Unknown

Datecirca 2nd century

MediumMarble, limestone, and glass

Dimensions98 1/2 x 99 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (250.2 x 252.7 x 6.4 cm)

ClassificationsMixed Media

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes

Object numberG.79.6.9

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Label TextDiscover more at NCMA Learn.ProvenancePossible provenience, Vienne, Fr. [1] [2]. M. Frey, Geneva [3]; [Jeanette G. Brun, Zurich]; Gordon Hanes (1916–1995) and Helen Copenhaver “Copey” Hanes (1917–2013), Winston-Salem, NC, 1979; given to NCMA, 1979.

[1] Per scholarly research presented in systematic catalogue.
[2] Reportedly found in Italy, per Brun. See letter to Mary Ellen Soles dated November 3, 2000, in NCMA object file G.79.6.9.
[3] Per Brun; see letter to Mary Ellen Soles dated December 11, 2000, in NCMA object file G.79.6.9.Published ReferencesEdgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 57.

North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Spring 1984), illus. (b-w) 13.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 31.

Özgen Acar, "Troubled Waters," Archaeology 53, no. 2 (September/October 2000), 42.

Mary Anne Fox, "As I See It," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview and Calendar of Events (Nov/Dec 2000), 29, illus. (b-w).

North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection," (Raleigh, NC; North Carolina Museum of Art, 2024), illus. (color) 17.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” November 8, 1979-May, 1980.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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