Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent cobalt blue appearing grey blue, opaque yellow, white, and red, and colorless. Vertical rounded rim; straight side, tapering gently towards bottom. Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of a single composite cane laid side by side in parallel rows, comprising from right to left a blue stripe, encasing and outlined to left in white, a red stripe, and a yellow stripe, outlined to left in white. The pattern is repeated four times, slanting from top right to bottom left. A blue network cane wound spirally with double fine white threads is attached as a rim. A few bubbles; dulling, slight pitting, and faint iridescent weathering on interior; weathering on jagged edges. Irregular shallow indents on exterior.

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