Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Thin-walled body fragment of bowl. Translucent purple, light blue partly mixed with yellow appearing green, opaque white and yellow. Convex curving side. Mosaic pattern formed from sections of two canes: one in purple ground outlined in white with concentric circles of yellow dots, the other in blue ground with a central white dot and radiating yellow spokes. Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; limy encrustation, weathering, and faint iridescence on interior and jagged 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