Striped mosaic glass lens-shaped dish fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent cobalt blue, partially appearing light blue or green, opaque yellow, white, and red, and colorless. Upright, rounded rim; shallow, convex curving side. Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of two composite canes and squarish sections laid side by side in parallel rows: one cane in green, blue, red, and yellow stripes arranged in a mirror pattern on either side of a blue stripe, and the other in blue, light blue, red, and yellow stripes arranged in a mirror pattern on either side of a blue stripe; a blue network cane wound with a white thread; and three squares arranged in a row, one in white, the second in a blue ground with rods in concentric white, blue, and white circles and a central red dot, and the third in stripes of streaky blue, white, and purple, flanked by a single blue network cane with a yellow spiral thread. A broad blue network cane with a colorless spiral thread outlined in white is attached as a rim. Polished on interior, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy weathering on exterior and jagged edges.

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