Glass mosaic inlay

Unknown

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

Translucent cobalt blue ground; decoration in opaque white, yellow, red, and grayish green. Polygonal, flat, and very thin plaque. Symmetrical ivy leaf and palmette motif arranged around a large central six-petaled rosette, with a slightly compressed palmette with spiral volutes below on sides of the hexagon and ivy leaves in solid white at corners. Broken across middle with almost half of motif missing; upper and underside and edge ground and polished; pitted surface bubbles. This inlay is cut from the same mosaic block as 17.194.380, with decoration in mirror image.

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