Glass gold-band mosaic fragment

Unknown

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

Body fragment. Translucent cobalt blue, honey brown, opaque white, yellow, and colorless enclosing gold leaf. Almost flat. Gold-band mosaic pattern formed from sections of layered canes in bands of blue, white, yellow over brown, and colorless glass in one row, and with a segment of colorless glass with gold leaf. A few pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and some brownish weathering on interior; one edge ground flat.

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