Glass mosaic inlay

Unknown

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

Translucent light blue and opaque white. Thin narrow strip. Continuous guilloche or wave pattern. Broken and repaired; upper side ground and polished; pitted surface bubbles, dulling and faint weathering on edges and back The inlay is made from two sections cut from the same cane of mosaic glass, with decoration appearing in mirror image. Bluish backed on colorless, maeander pattern in white.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Egyptian, Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917