Glass short-strip mosaic bowl fragment

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

Translucent yellow green and purple appearing partially as deep honey brown, and opaque white. Vertical, rounded rim; convex curving side, tapering gently downward. Short-strip mosaic pattern formed from short lengths of two different canes: one in yellow with a white stripe, and the other in purple layered and striped with white; a third, composite cane, roughly rectangular, appears as a face in white with features drawn in very fine purple lines and hair in purple with white vertical lines. A purple (?) network cane wound spirally with two white threads is attached as a rim. For face canes on a Venetian glass bowl, dated to the late 19th century and made in imitation of Roman examples, see 81.8.207.

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