Glass cameo bowl fragment

Unknown

late 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent cobalt blue with overlay in opaque white. Outsplayed rim with flat upper edge; cylindrical body with slightly convex curving side. On interior, horizontal groove immediately below rim and another at top of side, forming a slightly convex band around inside of rim; on exterior, two raised horizontal lines at junction of rim and side. Also on exterior, in relief in white, head of youthful satyr, tipped slightly backward and drinking from a rhyton held in raised proper right hand; on the right, part of a leafy spray or branch. Rim fragment with large chip at left, broken at sides and bottom; dulling, slight pitting, creamy weathering, especially on and around white overlay, and faint iridescence. Rotary grinding marks on interior.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917