Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent blue layered with white, turquoise blue layered with yellow appearing green, purple, opaque white, yellow, with colorless glass. Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; convex curving side, tapering downward. Rim in colorless glass with double spiral yellow threads; body decorated with vertical bands slanting slightly from top right to bottom left, forming a pattern: colorless with double spiral yellow threads, blue, green with single spiral purple thread, white, colorless with double spiral yellow threads, purple with white stripe, colorless with double spiral yellow threads, and white. Many pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with slight surface pitting; dulling and 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