Glass striped mosaic vessel fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent purple, honey yellow, and turquoise blue, opaque white, and colorless. Convex curving side of a shallow bowl or dish. Striped pattern formed from parallel lengths of different, repeated canes: one stripe in plain purple with a thin white thread down its center; another in honey yellow encasing white; and a third in a colorless network wound with double white thread; and a trace of a honey yellow network wound with a turquoise blue thread on one corner. Polished exterior; slight pitting of surface bubbles on exterior; dulling, pitting, and patches of iridescent creamy weathering on interior; some weathering on jagged edges, but one straight edge chipped and unweathered.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman, probably Italian

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917