Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent cobalt blue, opaque white, and colorless with bluish tinge. Vertical rim with flat lip; almost vertical side, sloping gently inwards, then curved sharply in to bottom. Composite mosaic pattern formed from sections of a single cane in a colorless ground with irregular white rods surrounding a blue circle dotted with white rods. A wide blue network cane would spirally with a white thread is attached as a rim. Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles and slight weathering on exterior; creamy brown weathering and iridescence on interior; some iridescent weathering on 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