Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent cobalt blue, purple layered with colorless and appearing red, turquoise blue layered with yellow and appearing green; opaque yellow and white, and colorless. Shallow convex curving bottom. Quadripartite striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of at least four different canes laid side by side in parallel rows: green, yellow, blue outlined in colorless, and red outlined in yellow; four sections laid at right angles around a central square cane in a colorless ground with a white spiral around a green ground and a central yellow spiral in a purple ground. Polished exterior; slight pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling and iridescent weathering on interior and 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