Glass mosaic plate fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent blue green, opaque red, white, and yellow. Broad, outsplayed rim, with rounded but uneven lip, sloping obliquely inward; recessed shallow ledge between rim and side, perhaps from modern polishing; slightly convex curving side, tapering downward. Mosaic pattern formed from large sections of a single cane in a blue green ground with multiple rods in red mixed with white and a central yellow rod. Polished exterior; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling, slight pitting and weathering on interior; 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