Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, blue and yellow mixed together appearing dull green, yellow, and white, with colorless glass. Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; straight side, curving inward slightly at bottom. Rim in colorless glass with white thread; body decorated with bands slanting from top left to bottom right, forming a regular pattern: colorless with spiral yellow thread, green, pale blue mixed with white, green, colorless with spiral yellow thread, blue, red, blue, colorless with spiral yellow thread. A few pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and faint iridescent weathering on interior and 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