Glass Fragments

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4th century · Glass · Medieval Art

Excavations by the Metropolitan Museum at a necropolis in Egypt's Libyan Desert revealed a domed funerary chapel with an intriguing form of decoration: glass vessels of various shapes and colors impressed into the plaster of the dome. These fragments come from a shallow bowl made of greenish-clear glass with a molded decoration of concentric circles within a checkerboard.

Artist

Unknown

Date

4th century

Medium

Glass

Culture

Coptic

Department

Medieval Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1931