Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent blue, blue layered with yellow appearing dull green, purple appearing opaque streaky brick red, and opaque yellow, with colorless glass. Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; convex curving side, tapering in sharply at bottom. Rim in blue with single white spiral thread; body decorated with vertical bands slanting slightly from top left to bottom right, forming regular pattern, repeated three times in red, blue, red, and green, yellow, green, interspersed with thin lines of colorless glass. Two conjoined fragments; 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