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 hemispherical bowl. Translucent cobalt blue, purple appearing semi-opaque brick red, light blue appearing green, opaque yellow and white, and colorless. Vertical rim with beveled inner lip; convex curving side, turned in sharply towards bottom. Striped pattern formed from lengths of different canes in parallel, diagonal lines: one cane in green; another in yellow outlined with white lines; a third in blue; a network cane in colorless with two spiral yellow threads; a cane in layered stripes of red, white, and blue; another colorless network cone with a single yellow spiral thread; a green length; a blue length outlines in white; and a red stripe flanked in colorless and outlined in light blue and white appearing grey; a colorless network cane with a yellow spiral thread is attached as a rim. Exterior polished and outer lip of rim ground back; band along one side of interior and edges also polished; dulling, pitting, and patches of iridescent weathering on interior.

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