Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent cobalt blue, purple, opaque white, yellow, with colorless glass. Applied coil rim with slightly beveled, vertical lip; almost straight side, tapering slightly at bottom. Rim in colorless glass with fine double spiral thread; body decorated with wavy bands slanting from top left to right, forming a regular pattern: purple, blue, colorless with double spiral yellow thread, white, purple with three white lines, and white. Some pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles and one large weathered scratch; iridescent 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