Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent honey brown, blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, turquoise blue layered with yellow appearing green, opaque yellow, and white, with colorless glass. Applied coil rim with vertical, rounded lip; convex curving side, tapering inward at bottom. Rim in brown with single white spiral thread; body decorated with bands slanting from top right to bottom left, forming a pattern: blue, red, blue, colorless with two thick white spiral threads, green, and yellow. Some pinprick and larger bubbles; polished exterior; some pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling and iridescent weathering on interior; iridescent weathering on 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