Glass monocrome dish fragment

Unknown

1st half of 1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Fragment of footed dish. Opaque red. Flat interior, slightly concave at center; on exterior, solid angular foot ring, slanting outward, around edge of bottom. Polished interior; pitting of surface bubbles and patch of weathering on interior; gritty encrustation and thick green weathering on exterior and outer edge of foot ring; no weathering on broken edge. The rest of the side that extended up from the foot ring has probably been ground away in recent times.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st half of 1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891