Glass short-strip mosaic vessel fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent cobalt blue, turquoise blue, and honey yellow, opaque white, and colorless. Thin-walled curving body fragment. Short-strip mosaic pattern formed from sections of composite canes set randomly together: one cane in cobalt blue ground with white circle surrounding a central white rod, and another consists of strips of cobalt and turquoise blue; other canes combine these colors with honey yellow and colorless in patterns that are too fragmentary to reconstruct. Polished exterior; pitting of surface lines between canes on exterior; dulling, pitting, and slight iridescence on interior; weathering on all jagged edges.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917