Glass mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent blue-green appearing green, opaque yellow and white. Vertical rim, slightly beveled inward; vertical, slightly concave curving side. Mosaic pattern formed from sections of a single cane in a blue green ground with random yellow rods. A blue green network cane wound spirally with thin white threads is attached as a rim. Polished exterior and rim, leaving only traces of the spiral threads, and one straight edge ground flat; pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling, slight pitting, and creamy weathering and iridescence on interior; weathering on one jagged edge.

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