Glass network mosaic fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent blue, opaque white, and colorless. Applied coil rim with vertical, rounded lip; almost vertical side. Rim in blue with white spiral thread; body decorated with six colorless canes, slanting from top right to bottom left, decorated with a single spirally twisted white thread. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and faint creamy iridescence weathering on interior; jagged, weathered 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