Glass short-strip mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent purple, turquoise blue, opaque white, yellow, and colorless. Vertical rim with slightly inwardly-beveled edge; shallow convex curving side. Short-strip mosaic pattern formed from short lengths of three or more canes set in slanting lines: one cane consists of a purple ground with white spiral enclosing a colorless ground with a central yellow rod; a second comprising of a blue band layered with white; a third in a colorless ground with a yellow spiral around a small central white rod encased in blue; a colorless network cane wound spirally with two blue threads is attached as a rim. Pinprick bubbles in rim; polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; 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