Glass mosaic dish rim fragment

Unknown

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

Rim fragment of a short-strip mosaic lens-shaped dish. Translucent cobalt blue, honey yellow, opaque white, yellow, red, and dull greyish blue-green, and colorless. Upright rim with rounded edge; shallow, convex-curving side. Short rectangular lengths of three composite canes, set randomly to each other: one comprising a central red strip, outlined in white and flanked by blue; a second comprising alternating strip of opaque white and colorless, streaked with blue; and the third containing yellow and blue strips; all interspersed with circular sections of one cane, comprising a central white rod outlined in red within concentric circles in blue-green and yellow, all within a circle in blue with a ring of small white rods. A yellow network cane would spirally with a single blue thread is attached as a rim. Dulling and slight iridescent weathering on both surfaces, rim, 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