Gold-glass mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

early 2nd century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Colorless, colorless with purple tinge, translucent cobalt blue, opaque white, opaque yellow, and gold leaf. Hemispherical bowl fragment with flaring rim with rounded edge; convex curving side. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of a single composite cane in a blue ground with a white spiral and central dot in yellow; interspersed with this cane are numerous irregular segments, one in solid white, the second in solid yellow, and the thrid in gold leaf snadwiched in colorless glass; a purplish coloress cane is attached as a rim. Broken and repaired from twenty-two fragments, with several small holes in side; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescent weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

early 2nd century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917