Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Body fragment. Translucent blue, turquoise blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, turquoise blue appearing green, opaque yellow, and white, with colorless glass. Side curving in sharply to flat bottom. Decorated with vertical bands, forming a regular pattern: turquoise blue, red, blue layered with white, blue with single white spiral thread, green, yellow, green, blue with single white spiral thread, blue, red, blue, and turquoise. A few pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling, pitting, iridescence, and creamy weathering on interior; some 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