Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment

Unknown

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

Part of a deep ribbed bowl. Translucent blue, purple, and opaque white. Side outsplayed at top, straight below and slanting in downward. On exterior, top part of a single, squarish rib, tapering into side at top; composite mosaic pattern formed from sections of three canes: one in a purple ground with a scatter of white rods around a blue ground outlined in white with a central white rod; the second in a blue ground with a white spiral, and the third in a blue ground fringed in purple around a blue square outlined in white and a central white rod. Polished on interior, with pitting of surface bubbles and some weathering; dulling, weathering, and slight iridescence 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