Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent blue, purple, turquoise green, yellow, and white, with colorless glass. Applied coil rim with vertical lip, slightly beveled inward; convex curving side, tapering inward at bottom. Rim in colorless glass with blue spiral thread; body decorated with vertical bands forming a pattern: yellow, green, purple with spiral white thread, white, purple, yellow, and blue. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy iridescent weathering on interior; some iridescent weathering on 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