Glass network mosaic fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Colorless and translucent deep honey brown, with opaque white. Applied coil rim with thick, rounded lip; slightly curving side, becoming thinner towards bottom. Rim in brown with white spiral thread; body decorated with six parallel horizontal canes decorated with single spirally twisted threads. Many pinprick bubbles; exterior polished; pitting of surface bubbles; jagged weathered edges; dulling and weathering on interior.

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