Glass mosaic fragment

Unknown

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

Thin-walled body fragment. Translucent purple, light blue appearing green, opaque yellow and white, and colorless. Very shallow curving side, with two straight edges at right angle to each other. Mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of two canes: one in a purple ground with a hollow white circle and a central white rod outlined with fine green and yellow circles, and the other (only partially preserved) in a colorless ground with white or yellow lines. Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; iridescent weathering on interior and edges. Perhaps cut down into a square shape in antiquity.

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