Glass network mosaic fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent turquoise blue, opaque yellow, and colorless. Applied coil rim with thin vertical lip; convex side, curving inward at bottom. Rim in blue with yellow spiral thread; body decorated with eleven narrow horizontal colorless canes decorated with two spirally twisted yellow threads. Pinprick bubbles; polished exterior, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy iridescence weathering on interior; iridescent weathering on 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