Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Translucent blue, purple appearing opaque brick red, turquoise blue layered with yellow appearing green, opaque yellow, and white, with colorless glass. Applied coil rim with rounded, vertical lip; almost straight side, curving inward slightly at bottom. Rim in blue with white spiral thread; body decorated with vertical bands, forming a regular repeated pattern: one in blue and red flanked by fine white lines, another in yellow flanked by green, both separated by a colorless cane with spiral yellow thread. Pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and faint weathering on interior; 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