Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent blue, turquoise blue, largely layered with yellow appearing green, honey yellow layered with white, opaque yellow, and white, with colorless glass. Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; slightly convex side, curving inward at bottom. Rim in colorless glass with two yellow spiral threads; body decorated with bands slanting from top left to bottom right, forming a pattern: yellow, blue, yellow, green, colorless with double spiral yellow threads, green, yellow, green colorless with two yellow spiral threads, blue, white, turquoise, and green. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy weathering on interior; some iridescent weathering on 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