Glass striped mosaic fragment

Unknown

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

Body fragment. Translucent blue, turquoise blue and opaque yellow appearing green, purple appearing opaque brick red, white, yellow, and colorless. Convex curving side, turned in at one corner (bottom?). Decorated with parallel (horizontal?) bands in blue with thin white and red lines below, colorless glass streaked with red, colorless glass with double yellow spiral threads, streaky green, yellow, white, green, and colorless glass with double yellow spiral threads. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy iridescent weathering on interior 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