Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent cobalt blue, purple, opaque white and yellow, and colorless. Applied coil rim with rounded edge; almost vertical side. Rim in purple with single spiral thread in white; body decorated with striped quadripartite pattern formed from lengths of different canes: one in colorless layered with purple and flanked by white; a colorless network cane wound spirally with two yellow threads; blue layered with white; polygonal cane in a purple ground with a circle of yellow dots and a central blue rod surrounded by a white circle, alternating with a square cane in colorless layered with white; a colorless network cane wound spirally with two yellow threads; and a cane in colorless layered with yellow. Rotary grinding marks on interior. Chipped edges and interior; polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; pitting, dulling, and faint 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