Glass network mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent blue, opaque white, and colorless. Applied coil rim with rounded lip; slightly convex curving side, tapering downward. Rim in blue with fine double white spiral threads; body decorated with eleven colorless narrow canes slanting from top right to bottom left, decorated with two spirally twisted white threads. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy iridescent weathering on interior, rim, and jagged edges. The body of the vessel, probably a hemispherical bowl, is decorated with lengths of glass comprising a colorless cane wound spirally with parallel threads in opaque white glass. The rim is marked by a separate cane of blue and white threads.

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