Glass monochrome dish fragment

Unknown

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

Opaque jade green. Vertical, rounded rim; convex side, bulging outward slightly, then curving in sharply, and finally turned downward. On exterior, below rim, molding comprising two horizontal grooves, the upper narrow, the lower broad, with a raised horizontal ridge below; on undercurve of side, a faint groove above a raised band. Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles with some weathering in grooves and chips on exterior; dulling and creamy iridescent weathering on interior, rim, and side edges; bottom edge unweathered. This rim fragment belongs to a large shallow dish made in a rather unusual opaque blue-green (jade) color.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st half of 1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891