Glass mosaic bowl

Unknown

2nd–1st century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Colorless, translucent cobalt blue, opaque yellow, and opaque white. Outsplayed horizontal rim with rounded edge; S-shaped side tapering downwards to slightly convex bottom within applied outsplayed base ring with thick beveled edge, applied as a coil with join down one side. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of a composite cane in a colorless ground with a yellow spiral surrounding two small rings, one in blue, the other in white, and central dot in blue; interspersed with this cane are a number of irregular segments in blue with a central white stripe, and around the side and rim others in streaky yellow; the base ring is yellow streaked with blue and white threads. Intact; some bubbles; dulling, some patches of deep pitting, slight reddish brown soil encrustation, and faint weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

2nd–1st century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek or Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891