Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent cobalt blue, and turquoise blue appearing green, opaque yellow, white, and red, and colorless. Vertical, rounded rim; slight convex curving side, sloping in gently towards bottom. Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of two alternating canes laid side by side in parallel rows and separated from one another by single length of a colorless network cane wound with a double spiral thread: one composite cane comprising a central red length encasing white and outlined irregularly in white, flanked by cobalt blue stripes; the other with a central yellow length outlined irregularly in white and flanked by turquoise blue stripes encasing yellow. A deep blue network cane wound spirally with a single white thread is attached as a rim. Polished surfaces; slight pitting of surface bubbles.

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