Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent purple, cobalt blue, and light turquoise blue, opaque white, and colorless. Outsplayed, rounded rim; convex curving side. Mosaic pattern formed from large polygonal sections of two or more canes; one in a purple ground with a circle of white rods around a central pattern of small squares in turquoise blue outlined in white, and the other in a blue ground with a circle of white rods around a central square in purple with white dots, and irregular patches in colorless with white rods; on exterior, two widely spaced, vertical ribs, with flattened tops. Polished interior; pitting of surface bubbles on interior; dulling and creamy iridescent weathering on exterior, rim, and jagged edges. Part of the rim and side of a deep, footed ribbed bowl with broad flaring rim.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

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