Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent purple, opaque yellow and red, and colorless. Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; almost straight, thicker side at top, then curving inward at bottom. Rim in purple with a white spiral thread; body decorated with parallel, slanting, vertical bands, forming a regular repeated pattern in purple, colorless, red, yellow, colorless, and yellow. Pinprick bubbles; polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling and iridescent weathering on interior and rim; some 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