Glass mosaic vessel fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent blue, partially layered with opaque yellow and appearing dull green, opaque white and yellow, and colorless. Very shallow convex-curving side or bottom. Pattern formed from short irregular lengths of four canes: one in colorless, a second in yellow, a third in green outlined in yellow, and a fourth comprising a blue square outlined in white and blue. Broken into two conjoining pieces; polished on exterior, with some pitting of surface bubbles; pitting, dulling and iridescent weathering on interior and 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