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 dull green, opaque yellow, white, and colorless. Convex curving side. Decorated with parallel bands in blue, yellow, colorless with double spiral yellow threads, green, white, blue, and colorless glass with yellow spiral thread. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with slight pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and pitting on interior; iridescent weathering on 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