Glass striped mosaic body fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent blue, purple, honey yellow, and turquoise blue layered with opaque yellow appearing green, opaque white, and colorless. Convex-curving side. Striped mosaic pattern formed from two broad canes laid side by side in parallel rows separated from one another by a single length of a network cane in colorless with a double spiral yellow thread: one cane comprises strips in green white, and purple with a central white line, and the other in a blue strip flanked by white and purple stripes, honey yellow layered with white, and blue with irregular white streaks. Polished on exterior, with some pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and iridescent weathering on interior 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