Glass mosaic carinated bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Body fragment. Translucent purple, light blue appearing green, opaque white and yellow, and colorless. Part of two convex curves, the upper narrow and sharply curving, the lower deeper and tapering downward. Mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of three canes: one in a purple ground outlined in white with a circle of yellow rods; another in a blue ground with a yellow spiral, and a third in a colorless ground with a yellow spiral. All canes distorted. Polished interior; pitting of surface bubbles and some deep iridescent weathering on interior; dulling, thick black weathering, and some iridescence on exterior 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