Glass striped mosaic bowl fragments

Unknown

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

Two non-conjoining fragments of rim and side of a bowl. Translucent cobalt blue, light blue appearing turquoise green, brownish purple, opaque white and red. Vertical rounded rim; convex curving side, tapering inward to bottom. Striped mosaic pattern formed from lengths of two alternating canes: one with stripes in red flanked to either side by white, blue, and green, and the other in alternating squares, one in blue, the other in a purple ground containing a star pattern of five central white rods encircled by white and purple rings. A blue network cane wound with a white spiral thread is attached as a rim. Some polishing of exterior, with areas of pitting and iridescent weathering, especially on white stripes and red completely weathered on exterior; dulling and slight pitting 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