Glass short-strip mosaic fragment

Unknown

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

Thin-walled body fragment. Translucent purple, cobalt blue, turquoise blue layered with opaque yellow and appearing green, opaque white, yellow, and brick red. Shallow convex curving side. Short-strip mosaic pattern formed from lengths of striped canes in bands of white, blue, yellow, and green, combined with polygonal sections of a cane in a purple ground outlined in white with a ring of white dots around a central hollow red circle. Polished exterior; slight pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling and iridescent weathering on interior and all but one edge.

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