Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent turquoise blue and purple, and opaque white and yellow, and colorless. Vertical rim with beveled inner edge; convex curving side, tapering inward. A single horizontal wheel-cut groove below rim on interior; mosaic pattern formed from sections of several small canes; one in colorless blue ground with a spiral yellow thread, another in purple ground with a central white dot, and a third in blue bordered with white. Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy weathering on interior, rim, and 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