Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Body fragment. Translucent blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, turquoise blue appearing green, yellow, and white, with colorless glass. Convex curving side. Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of different canes in regular, parallel bands: yellow, green, colorless with two overlapping spiral yellow threads, blue, red, blue, colorless with two overalapping spiral yellow threads, and green. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; pitting and creamy weathering on interior and jagged edges. This type of Roman mosaic glass combines stripes of translucent colored glass with canes of network glass.

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