Eye from a Bronze Statue

Unknown

5th–2nd century B.C.

Marble, obsidian, glass, and copper, Marble, Copper

J. Paul Getty Museum

A single, stylized eye made of marble, obsidian, glass, and copper. It features a black pupil and iris, with metallic eyelashes and a greenish patina on the sclera. Eye of glass paste and stone (marble, obsidian) set into bronze with an overhanging fringe of lashes. Made for insertion into a statue. "Acquisitions/1984." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 13 (1985), p. 174, no. 40.