Glass mosaic shallow bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent blue and purple, opaque white and yellow, and colorless. Thin-walled, concave curving body fragment. Mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of canes: one in a blue ground outlined in white with a circle of white rods around a central yellow rod, all tinged with purple, and another in a yellow ground, layered with colorless; at one corner, the trace of a third cane in purple outlined in white. Polished exterior; slight pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; some bubbles; slight dulling, pitting, and 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