Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent blue, purple layered with white appearing opaque brick red, opaque yellow, white, and colorless. Applied coil rim with rounded vertical lip; side tapering downward. Rim in blue with a single broad spiral thread; body decorated with short-strip mosaic pattern formed from rectangular lengths of two canes set randomly or at right angles to one another: one in blue with white lines and streaks, the other in bands of red, yellow, and white; one small square in colorless glass. Exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and faint creamy weathering on interior and some iridescent weathering on edges.

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