Glass mosaic carinated bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent deep purple, opaque white, yellow, and brick red, deep green, and colorless. Outsplayed, almost horizontal rim with rounded edge; carinated side, with part of one convex curve. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of three canes: one in a purple ground surrounding a circular cluster of green rods outlined in yellow and with a central red rod; another in a colorless ground with a yellow spiral, and the third in a purple ground with a white circle and central white rod. Polished interior; pitting of surface bubbles on interior; dulling and iridescent weathering on exterior, edge of rim, 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