Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent purple, opaque white, yellow, and colorless. Vertical rounded rim; below rim, side bulges outward, then curves gently inward, and continues downward at a slant. Striped quadripartite pattern formed from lengths of two or more composite canes, laid vertically parallel to each other, comprising broad lengths in white, narrow purple lengths with fine white stripes, yellow lengths, and two different network canes, one in colorless wound with a purple spiral threads outlines in white, and the other in colorless would with a single yellow spiral thread. A colorless network cane wound spirally with two white threads is attached as a narrow rim. Some pinprick bubbles; dulling, slight pitting, and faint iridescent weathering on all surfaces. Rotary grinding marks on both interior and exterior.

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