Glass network mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent blue, opaque white, and colorless. Applied coil rim with vertical, rounded lip; slightly convex curving side, tapering downward. Rim in blue with white spiral thread; body decorated with eleven colorless canes, slanting from top left to bottom right, decorated with various patterns of double spirally twisted white threads. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and creamy weathering on interior; jagged, weathered 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