Glass cameo fragment

Unknown

1st half of 1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent cobalt blue and opaque light blue. Flat plaque or inlay, decorated with an upper layer carved out in relief; smooth, flat back. On cobalt blue ground, a fish in profile facing left, with fins, scales, gills, eye, mouth carved as shallow cuts in surface of the upper opaque light blue layer; above fish, bottom edge of a second relief, perhaps another fish. Bottom straight edge, irregular breaks on sides and top; broken into two fragments and repaired; very few bubbles; dulling, limy weathering, and faint iridescence.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st half of 1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917