Glass striped mosaic fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent honey yellow, blue, purple, turquoise blue appearing partially green, opaque white, and colorless. Flat section, possibly from the bottom of a pyxis (lidded box). Striped mosaic and ribbon mosaic patterns in combination: a length of a single cane in honey yellow with white threads running alongside a row of roughly square canes of three different patterns, one in colorless with a central white rod within rings in purple and white, placed singly flanked by two pairs of canes, one in blue with a central white rod within rings in purple and white, the other in turquoise blue with a central white rod within rings in purple and white. Ground and polished on upper surface, trimmed down along edges; some bubbles; some pitting and weathering on upper surface, dulling and iridescent weathering on underside, some weathering on 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