Glass striped mosaic fragment

Unknown

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

Body fragment. Translucent blue, purple, opaque brick red, yellow, and white, with colorless glass. Wavy curving side. Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of different canes laid in regular, parallel bands: colorless with a double spiral yellow thread, yellow, colorless with a double spiral yellow thread, purple layered with blue and with a white streak, colorless with two overlapping spiral yellow threads, white, colorless with two overlapping spiral yellow threads, and white largely layered on both sides with red. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and faint iridescent weathering on interior 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