Glass monochrome dish fragment

Unknown

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

Opaque red. Flat bottom; integral, low base ring. Polished interior; pitting of surface bubbles on interior; thick green weathering on exterior and base ring; similar weathering on most edges. Part of the flat bottom of a dish with a low base ring on the exterior. The opaque red color was very popular and appears on numerous examples of Roman cast monochrome glass. The surface often appears as a weathered green color because the copper, added to the glass to give it its vivid red color, has leeched out over time.

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