Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Thin-walled body fragment. Translucent purple with colorless streaks, turquoise blue appearing green, opaque white, red, and yellow. Convex curving side. Mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of two canes outlined in white: one in a purple ground with a red circle enclosing a pattern of white dots on a purple ground, and the other in a purple ground with a red circle enclosing a scatter of turquoise blue rods outlined in yellow. Polished exterior; pitting and slight weathering of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling and 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