Glass mosaic fragment

Unknown

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

Thin-walled body fragment. Translucent purple, turquoise blue mixed with yellow appearing green, opaque white, yellow, and colorless. Almost straight side. Body decorated with mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of three canes: one in purple ground outlined in white with concentric circles of yellow dots; the second in colorless with yellow spiral, and third in blue with yellow spiral. Exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; pitting and iridescent weathering on interior and 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