Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Rim and side of a shallow bowl. Translucent blue, purple, opaque honey yellow and white, and colorless. Vertical, rounded rim; almost vertical side, expanding slightly outward, then turned in sharply to sloping bottom. Striped pattern formed from lengths of different canes, repeated in parallel, almost vertical lines: one cane in yellow enclosing a white layer; another in colorless flanked to either side with a purple line; and a third in blue, partially layered with white and appearing pale semi-opaque blue; a blue network cane with a white spiral thread is attached as a rim. One large chip in exterior surface of bottom; dulling and patches of iridescent weathering on both surfaces and jagged edges. Irregular shallow horizontal tooling marks on exterior of side.

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