Glass striped mosaic fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent turquoise blue layered with yellow appearing green, purple, opaque white, yellow, with colorless glass. Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; almost straight side, tapering slightly at bottom. Rim in colorless glass with single spiral yellow thread; body decorated with vertical bands slanting slightly from top right to bottom left, forming a regular pattern: colorless with double spiral yellow threads, white, purple, green, purple, white, colorless with double spiral yellow threads, white, purple, yellow, purple, and white. Some pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and faint weathering on interior and 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