Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment. Semi-opaque blue green appearing greyish green, dark purple appearing black, opaque white, yellow, and red. Outsplayed horizontal rim, with rounded edge; convex curving side slanting downward. Mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of a single cane in a blue green ground with a black circle containing a ring of yellow rods and a central white rod surrounded by a red circle. Polished interior; pitting and weathering of surface bubbles on interior; dulling and creamy brown weathering on exterior, edge of rim, and part of one jagged edge; other edges unweathered.

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