Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent blue and purple, opaque yellow and white, with colorless glass. Vertical, rounded rim; convex curving side, tapering downward. Striped mosaic pattern, formed from sections of two canes in a regular pattern: one in yellow spirally twisted threads flanked by bands of yellow, the other in a band of blue backed by white outlined by purple and white. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; creamy weathering and iridescence on interior and jagged edges; one edge ground flat.

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