Glass network mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent turquoise blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, opaque white, and colorless. Applied coil rim with almost flat lip; slightly tapering side, then curving inward at bottom. Rim in blue with purple spiral thread; body decorated with eleven colorless canes decorated with two spirally twisted white threads. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling, pitting, and small patches of creamy iridescence weathering on interior, and some 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