Glass mosaic fragment

Unknown

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

Translucent purple; trails in opaque white, yellow, and grey-blue. Part of a thick slab, with one rounded edge and uneven top and bottom surfaces. Wavy trails applied to top, fire-polished surface, extending onto rounded edge. Surface pitting of pinprick bubbles and small areas of encrustation and dulling on top surface; dulling, pitting, and some reddish soil encrustation on bottom surface 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